HI Cedric, >> 2.) Is there a platform-independent way to store pointer-values in >> java variables using CNI. With JNI this isnt possible as far as I >> know, because storing pointer-values into "int" only works of cource >> on 32-bit machines.... >>Then why not storing them into "long"? This doesn't work. Under Win64, for example, a void* is 64 bits but a long is still 32 bits. -- Mohan http://www.thisiscool.com/ http://www.animalsong.org/