akka remote actor running on local actor - scala

Question

I am learning akka-remote and trying to re-do http://www.typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-remote-scala myself.
When I try to run the project in two separate JVMs, I see
$ clear;java -jar akkaio-remote/target/akka-remote-jar-with-dependencies.jar com.harit.akkaio.remote.RemoteApp ProcessingActor
ProcessingActorSystem Started
and
$ clear;java -jar akkaio-remote/target/akka-remote-jar-with-dependencies.jar com.harit.akkaio.remote.RemoteApp WatchingActor
WatchingActorSystem Started
asking processor to process
processing big things
I asked my Processing System to run on port 2552
include "common"
akka {
# LISTEN on tcp port 2552
remote.netty.tcp.port = 2552
}
and I told my other system (WatchingSystem) to run on port 2554 but start processingActor on port 2552
include "common"
akka {
actor {
deployment {
"/processingActor/*" {
remote = "akka.tcp://ProcessingActorSystem#127.0.0.1:2552"
}
}
}
remote.netty.tcp.port = 2554
}
and common is about using the right provider
akka {
actor {
provider = "akka.remote.RemoteActorRefProvider"
}
remote {
netty.tcp {
hostname = "127.0.0.1"
}
}
}
Questions/Concerns
From logs, I see that the processingActor is running on WatchingActorSystem and not on ProcessingActorSystem, what is wrong going on?
How can I see that the two ActorSystems are connecting to each other. I do not see logging happening. However, in the example, I shared the logging happens. What am I missing?
The entire code is posted on Github and runs as well

Answer 1

1) Your deployment configuration is set up to have all the children of processingActor being remote, as described in the akka configuration docs
You should set it to this instead:
deployment {
"/processingActor" {
remote = "akka.tcp://ProcessingActorSystem#127.0.0.1:2552"
}
2) You need to set your log level to something useful as described in the akka logging documentation