spray/spray

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

spray is a suite of Scala libraries for building and consuming RESTful web services on top of Akka, designed to be lightweight, asynchronous, non-blocking, actor-based, and testable. It is no longer maintained and has been superseded by Akka HTTP; note that the spray.io domain now hosts an unrelated commercial influencer-marketing product, not this project.

Use cases

• build a REST API in Scala on top of Akka
• consume RESTful web services from Scala asynchronously
• run a lightweight non-blocking HTTP server on Akka actors
• define HTTP routes with a Scala routing DSL
• test Scala REST endpoints
• maintain or read legacy code that depends on spray

When to choose

• You are maintaining, extending, or reading an existing legacy Scala/Akka codebase already built on spray
• You need the historical source as a reference while planning a migration to Akka HTTP

When to avoid

• Starting any new Scala HTTP or REST project - use Akka HTTP (or Apache Pekko HTTP) instead
• You need ongoing maintenance, security fixes, or compatibility with modern Scala and Akka versions
• You arrived from spray.io looking for the AI influencer gifting platform - that site is an unrelated commercial product, not this repository

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

web-framework http-server http-client routing testing web-development backend apis jvm scala akka rest asynchronous non-blocking actor-based unmaintained superseded-by-akka-http http

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