On Mar 6 2013, at 08:21 , Bob Vandette wrote:

> For a traditional
> JRE that doesn't even require static library support, we'd have to make sure 
> to run on a VM that
> support JNI_VERSION_1_8.  It looks like the JDK maintains their own copy of 
> jni.h.

In earlier days the jni.h file was copied from hotspot into jdk during the 
compilation process. The current build process doesn't validate that the two 
files match which opens up opportunities for inconsistencies and problems.

>  If they didn't 
> do that, we would have already gone down that path.

If it's possible to improve upon having two jni.h instances then we should 
consider doing so.

Mike

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