Re: kaffe native interface

2001-05-08 Thread Philippe Laporte
Hi, the second explanation is the right one You can find plenty of documentation on the JNI at http://www.transvirtual.com/~peter/native/ Regards, -- Philippe Laporte Tel: (510) 527-4025 ext 14 Transvirtual Technologies, Inc., Fax: (510) 559-3287 Berkeley,

Re: kaffe native interface

2001-05-07 Thread Patrick Tullmann
Nic Ferrier wrote: > Is native more efficient? Yep. You can access the java objects more directly. The 'kaffeh' tool generates a .h file that maps a java type to a C typedef, so you can access fields simply and directly. > Or is it simply that jni was firmed up long after most of kaffe was >

Re: kaffe native interface

2001-05-07 Thread Archie Cobbs
Nic Ferrier writes: > Or is it simply that jni was firmed up long after most of kaffe was > written and "native" is the historic native interface for Kaffe? Yep.. -Archie __ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * h

kaffe native interface

2001-05-07 Thread Nic Ferrier
Kaffe uses 2 different native interfaces... "native" seems to be kaffe specific but also the standard jni. Is there a design reason for this? Is native more efficient? Or is it simply that jni was firmed up long after most of kaffe was written and "native" is the historic native interface for K