What is the latest scoop on documentation?
• The section on JNI in the The Java Tutorial is a good starting point. • The online specification. • Watch out for the forthcoming The Java Native Interface: Programmer’s Guide and Specification. The author of this page has also heard of, but not read, Essential JNI: Java Native Interface, 1/e, from Prentice Hall. 8. (Solaris) Has support for native threads gotten any better? Yes. As of JDK/JRE 1.1.3 you could download a Solaris Native Threads Pack which was fully supported. In the Java 2 SDK, native threads is integrated into the release. If you use the invocation API on Solaris to embed the JVM into your application, we recommend the use of the native threads VM (see also Q11 on linker issues on Solaris). Lest you ask, we have always used only native threads on the Win32 platforms. 9. What about _g suffixed files? In JDK 1.1 releases files suffixed _g such as java_g.exe and javai_g.dll were part of the install. These files are no longer shipped in the Java 2 SDK (1) to reduce size a
