Advice on JNA v.s. JNI

[Matan]

Hi,

Would you recommend using JNA also for the case that one suffices with running only on linux systems, or even a limited subset of linux distributions? Why so? Which features, in particular, would be worth the extra library dependency, in your opinion?

Thanks,

Matan

[Kustaa Nyholm]

My first choice is always JNA over JNI.

It totally side steps the hell called C-tool chain so it is most of the time trivial to 

get off the ground and up to speed. Development and especially maintenance

in different (than original development) environments is so much easier.

Well worth the extra dependency even for a single call to OS API, IMO.

Just include the JNA in your path, write a few lines of Java and you can

call almost any API function that takes native parameters, complex

paramaters take a few more lines but often are trivial too.

Try that with JNI.

wrb Kusti

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