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 ...

The Java Native Interface (JNI) API from the Java Runtime Environment provides you with the tools you need to start a JVM from a C program and accomplish the task at hand.

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.

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 ...

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

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.

You're familiar with the Java Native Interface (JNI), right? JNI lets you load a shared library and call C code from within Java.

Major features in Java 19 will make it easier for Java developers to build applications that interface with non-Java code, among other capabilities in the 10th edition of the platform’s six ...

Per-Åke Minborg, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Java Core Libraries at Oracle, presented “Function and Memory Access in Pure Java” at JavaOne 2025. Minborg demonstrated how the Foreign ...