Thread safety

[LudovicG]

Hi,

I would be very interested to use java-cef in a project but I work in an environment where thread safety is critical and I need to make sure that JCEF is thread-safe but couldn't find much information on that topic.
From what I understand CEF is supposed to be thread-safe until specified otherwise so that would be nice, but what about the java wrapper:

1. Is the java code only serving as interface to the native library thus only passing parameters around and calling native functions or is it using extra steps and creating / storing new data and thus creating risks ?
2. Was the code written with thread safety in mind or is that supposed to be handled from outside the wrapper (only 1 thread interfacing with CEF objets) ?

Thanks in advance for any help on that matter.

[magreenblatt]

Was the code written with thread safety in mind

Yes. That said, we offer no guarantees with open source software. I strongly recommend that you test it for yourself to verify your use case.

[LudovicG]

Hi,

Thank you for the quick answer.
Let me ask one more question, would a threading issue in JCEF be considered a bug, and did issues of this kind occur in the past? Because I couldn't find any, which seem great.

[magreenblatt]

If the issue was in JCEF then it would be considered a bug. The intersection between Java AWT and platform thread requirements can sometimes be tricky to get right.