The Java Native Interface offers a complex and potentially error-prone approach to accessing native code from your Java programs. This month Jeff Friesen introduces JNA: an open source Java ...

Java enhancement proposal would preserve the status of the Java Native Interface as a standard way to interoperate with native code, while disallowing interoperation with native code by default.

The Java Standard Library provides a lot of functionality. However, it doesn't always provide the features needed to interface directly to the underlying system. Enter JNI, which lets you safely and ...

The alignment strategy, starting in JDK 22, will have the Java runtime display warnings about the use of JNI unless an FFM user enables unsafe native access on the command line.

In Java, a shared library is files used by multiple applications. Each shared library consists of a symbolic name, a Java classpath, and a native path for loading Java Native Interface (JNI ...

Project Panama, which is about connective Java native code to interface with external libraries, is getting two new preview features.

With tools like Jextract, Java developers can generate bindings to foreign code easily, sidestepping the clunky and error-prone Java Native Interface (JNI).

Loom focuses on achieving massive parallelism without the need to write asynchronous code. Panama’s goal is to make it possible for Java native code to interface with external libraries.