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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ?
Date: 1999/05/12
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lrk@pobox.com (Lance Kibblewhite) writes:
> David Botton wrote:
> >You have to first wrap the call in a C (or Ada for that matter) function
> >that can be called through the JNI interface.
> 
> Exactly correct. Thick bindings are needed, and these cannot be
> written in Java.

Not quite correct. It's true that an interface routine must be written
in a native language, but there is a technique available called "shared
stubs" which allows a single interface routine to call essentially any
native function. You can get source code and description from
<http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/faq/jni-examples/jnistb10.tar.gz>.