The Jive Application (JIVE) is the glue which allows Java Applets/Applications to interact with Erlang.
Java and Erlang has Jive packages that hides the socket communication from the programmer. The Java side also contains a number of wrapper classes for each Erlang variable type.
Java Applets/Applications can interact with Erlang i.e.
- Spawn new Erlang processes.
- Send messages to and from Erlang processes.
- Do
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on Erlang functions.