Will cni be the sane native interface to c++ in openjdk U gcj?

Tue Dec 25 12:07:00 GMT 2007

Chris Gray writes:
 > I don't claim to know the answer to this question, but I *think* I know what 
 > the question is: namely, "if I now convert my code to use CNI, will I still 
 > be able to use it with future gcj versions/derivatives based on openjdk 
 > code?". That is indeed a valid question from an application developer's point 
 > of view. It may also be computationally equivalent to answering the question 
 > "where will gcj be N years from now", abd I'm not sure anyone really has an 
 > answer to that ...
That's right. CNI is so superior to JNI that I really don't want to
see it die, but fixing it for OpenJDK is a lot of work. I think that
the odds it will happen are better than 50%. This would be a terrific
Summer Of Code project, in case anyone is looking...
Andrew.
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