g nodes, mailboxes and EPMD</li>
  <li>sending and receiving Erlang messages and data</li>
  <li>remote procedure calls</li>
  <li>linking to remote processes</li>
  <li>compiling your code for use with Jinterface</li>
  <li>tracing message flow</li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="#mapping-of-basic-erlang-types-to-the-jvm" name="mapping-of-basic-erlang-types-to-the-jvm"></a>Mapping of Basic Erlang Types to the JVM</h2>
<p>This section describes the mapping of Erlang basic types to JVM types.</p>
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