[2.3-java] I wrote a post about adding Twilio to Play apps so they can send and receive SMS, and make and manage voice calls...

[Michael Wawra]

Howdy. I wrote a post about how you can add Twilio to your Play apps so you can easily send and receive text messages and make and manage voice calls from your code. I'm a little new to the framework so any feedback or comments are appreciated. Hope it's helpful!

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014/08/play-with-twilio.html

Thanks!

[Josh Padnick]

Thanks for posting this!  The thing I always wonder about with Play and Twilio is if most people use the standard Twilio Java library as you did, or if people use Play's non-blocking WS.url() code and re-create the library?

For our Play 2.3.x Java app, we are probably going to wind up configuring the thread pools to be more like a standard blocking server because we haven't yet found an elegant way to do non-blocking JDBC calls in Java.  So a blocking call to Twilio wouldn't make much difference for us.  But if we were doing the "one thread per core" setup, then I think I would be worried about using the (presumably blocking) Twilio java library.

Josh

[Michael Wawra]

Thank you, I really appreciate the feedback. That's also a really good question.

In my example I'm not actually making any API calls, but this is definitely worth considering. I try to avoid making API calls on the same thread that renders a webpage to a user, to make sure you get the best user experience. I've tended towards worker queues for this, but I completely see what you mean.

mjw