[erlang-questions] JInterface and multi-threading

[Alexander Lamb]

Hello,

Now I have a better understanding of JInterface (from previous post  
answer), I looked into the Java code.

It it is not clear to me if rpc from Jinterface is thread safe. Or, in  
other words, will this be a bottleneck for an application in an app  
server with many concurent users.

Indeed, having only one OtpConnection (which seems logical now), I  
will need to do rpc calls from potentially simultanious threads.
How will this be handled? If one call is taking longer than expected,  
I will block on connection.receiveRPC().

Is there a correct way to handle this problem? Do I need for example  
to create a mailbox in a thread for each session in my server? This  
would allow my Java sesions to run regardless of any other session  
blocking on a call to the erlang server. Now, obviously, my Erlang  
server might be blocked but I could create an Erlang process on the  
server for each client process connecting from Java.

What is the correct way to handle those issues.

Thanks

Alex
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