globalizing java object references

[Oskar Liljeblad <osk at hem dot passagen dot se>]

From the CNI docs:

"If you need to save a pointer to a Java object inside some non-Java data
structure, you first need to "pin" or "globalize" the pointer; there is
no CNI function to do this yet."

Is it possible to circumvent this somehow? Or are there plans to
implement this in a near future?

I'm (still) experimenting with interfacing Gtk in java using CNI.
It may be reasonable to store a reference in each GtkObject to the
corresponding Java object (if any). (Gtk has convenient functions for
doing this, gtk_object_{get,set,remove}_data.) But this would not be
possible right now, because the way Java objects are memory managed?

Oskar Liljeblad (osk@hem.passagen.se)