Technically, yes (i.e. you can leave out the native code as long as you do not use a native call), but ...
>From implementation standpoint, we do a forced loading of the JNI code upfront, so in the default deployment - the absence of AR API native libraries indeed fail the program invocation. See, there are few issues because of which we did this - you may indeed talk to a server that is old version; or, sooner or later you're going to issue a call that needs services offered by native code. And most importantly we have not 'officially tested' and certified the behavior of 7.1 Java API in the absence of native libraries. For power users though, I can tell that there indeed is a way to configure the API to "NOT load the JNI stuff at all" by tweaking jni-load-mode setting (which is subject to change/disappear in a future version). You can dare to play around with this option and see how your app behaves <g>. BTW, one of our internal customers tried similar on a Mac with decent results I believe. :-) As there is some untested/unsupported behavior is all associated with this tweaking - in this release, we're claiming to simply include JNI stuff always. And hence the lack of (or need for) documenting which calls use JNI services. For your benefit, a quick listing would be - qualification formatting/parsing/encoding/decoding, assignment formatting/parsing/encoding/decoding, rpc version mapping for interacting with servers 6.3 or older versions, alert APIs. I pretty sure this is kind of complete but I may have missed a call or two. In any case, long term, we're definitely on the track for having these pieces as Java implementations for future release. Regards Appajee ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugo Visser Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 12:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: API libraries for Solaris on X86. ** Appajee, Is it (going to be) documented which classes rely on native libraries when running against a 7.1 server? I can imagine that if qualifier parsing requires a dll, and my program doesn't require that, I can leave out the dll? Regards, Hugo _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
