I would like to have some JNI code malloc a block of memory and pass it back to my Java code (in the form of a jlong), so that future calls to other JNI functions can pass this pointer along for the ...

Java has long been a powerhouse programming language thanks to its portability, robustness and extensive ecosystem. However, one major challenge for Java developers is interoperation with native code.

JNI is essential to the implementation of Java, since the JVM needs to interact with the native platform to implement some of its functionality. Apart from that, however, use of Java classes can often ...

A vender I'm working with provided a static library (.a) and two header files. I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using ...