Chapter 18. Building an Application
We’ve now covered how to use generic servers, FSMs, event handlers, and supervisors. However, we haven’t gotten to how to put them all together to build complete applications and tools.
An Erlang application is a group of related code and processes. An OTP application specifically uses OTP behaviors for its processes, and then wraps them in a very specific structure that tells the VM how to set everything up and then tear it down. In this chapter, we’re going to build an application with OTP components, although it won’t be a full OTP application because we won’t do the “wrapping up” just yet. The details of complete OTP applications are a bit complex and warrant their own chapter (the next one). This chapter ...
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