Akka/Scala Simple console Actor using scala-lang jline and a recursive actor.

Console.scala

import akka.actor._

import scala.tools.jline._
import scala.tools.jline.console._
import scala.tools.jline.console.completer._

class Console(actor:ActorRef) extends Actor {
  val consoleReader = new ConsoleReader()
  consoleReader.addCompleter(new StringsCompleter("quit")) // tab completion
  def receive = {
    case "start" => 
      var userinput = consoleReader.readLine("console > ").trim() // input
      self ! (userinput match {
        case "quit" => "stop" // Stop recursion
        case _ =>
          println("Unknown command %s".format(userinput))
          "start" // Recursive
      })
    case "stop" => actor ! "stop" // send stop signal to specified actor
  }
}