I'm making a html5/js game that will have online capabilities for my backend I've decided to use a wildfly server. The client will communicate with the server via web sockets.
I intended for my wildfly server to also be in charge of game logic decisions such as moving npc's. My plan was to have a @startup bean that would run a server game loop to handle this logic. The server loop would then talk to the serverEndPoint via HornetQ. My serverEndPoint and server loop look like this:
ServerEndPoint
@ServerEndpoint(value= "/game/{user-id}")
public class GameEndpoint {
@Inject
GameManager gameState;
GameWorld gameWorld;
Player p;
private Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(this.getClass().getName());
@OnOpen
public void onOpen(Session session){
//do stuff
}
@OnMessage
public void onMessage(Session session, String message){
//do stuff
}
@OnClose
public void onClose(CloseReason reason){
//do stuff
}
@OnError
public void error(Throwable t){
//do stuff
}
}
GameWorld
@Startup
@Singleton
public class GameWorld {
@Inject
GameManager gameState;
private Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(this.getClass().getName());
@PostConstruct
public void init(){
gameloop();
}
private void gameloop(){
while(true){
logger.info("This is a test!");
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
@PreDestroy
public void terminate(){
//do stuff
}
}
the issue with this is that the server loop freezes everything as it is a infinite loop(for instance if I try and access the html web page I get a 404). obviously this could be solved if the serverLoop was on its own seperate thread but after doing some research it seems threading in jboss is very difficult as its hard to know what dependencies to inject e.t.c
Can anyone shed some light on how I can solve this issue? any help on the matter would be amazing.
