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From: lrk@pobox.com (Lance Kibblewhite)
Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ?
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bob@nospam wrote:

>But to answer your question, yes of course. you use JNI (Java native
>interface) to call something not written in Java. It is trivial to do
>really. most people do that to call C or C++ code from Java. of course
>your application become non-portable as much as it were if all the code
>was written in only Java.

Perhaps you could clarify this for me with an example.

Lets start with something simple. Say I have a routine, in a shared
library, written in some other language, that takes a single
parameter, say a 32-bit integer passed by reference, as opposed to by
value.

How exactly does JNI enable me to call that routine.