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

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Chris Gray <chris dot gray at kiffer dot be>
Cc: et at ihear dot com, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:07:42 +0000
Subject: Re: Will cni be the sane native interface to c++ in openjdk U gcj?
References: <1198533116.3976.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200712251108.31639.chris.gray@kiffer.be>

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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References:
- Will cni be the sane native interface to c++ in openjdk U gcj?
  - From: ter
- Re: Will cni be the sane native interface to c++ in openjdk U gcj?
  - From: Chris Gray

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