This is great news... I was staring at a ton of integration work for an upcoming project, whew! (sounds much easier with JNA)
Thanks Tim Wall and thanks Charlie for posting that email to the list! M On 4/30/07, Wayne Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I can't give you JNI-based POSIX functions, but I can give you >> Java-based ones which might be a bit easier to maintain. JNA >> (http://jna.dev.java.net) might help you get the functionality you >> need without having to deal with JNI headaches. > > Ah-ha...I knew something like this had to exist. It seems like this > could be used to give us access to POSIX functions, as a sort of > "J/Invoke" capability? I can also see another use for this: reusing > Ruby's dll/so-based extensions until ports can be made... > > Very interesting... JNA is very nice. You can even use it directly from JRuby. e.g. require 'java' Function = Java::com.sun.jna.Function f = Function.new("gstreamer-0.10", "gst_version_string") puts "gst_version_string = " + f.invokeString(java.lang.String[0].new, false) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
