The time always comes when a programmer must jump the gap between the Java world contained within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the world of the low-level applications programming interface (API) ...

Since my trusty C++ compiler produced fast math code, I just needed to call these math routines instead of the slow StrictMath routines from my Java program. Java Native Interface (JNI) enables Java ...

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 ...

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Proposal would define an API to collect stack traces asynchronously and include information on both Java and native stack frames. A proposal promoting asynchronous stack traces in Java is advancing ...