From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G6Xk3-0000yr-5m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:11:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6SJANd3003017; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:10:23 GMT Received: from brmea-mail-2.sun.com (brmea-mail-2.Sun.COM [192.18.98.43]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6SJALG0013458 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:10:22 GMT Received: from fe-amer-06.sun.com ([192.18.108.180]) by brmea-mail-2.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k6SJAKHJ018330 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:10:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from conversion-daemon.mail-amer.sun.com by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) id <0J3400501NU6AZ00@mail-amer.sun.com> (original mail from David.Herron@Sun.COM) for gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:10:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [129.145.161.66] by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPSA id <0J3400A3VNX7IQC1@mail-amer.sun.com>; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:10:20 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:10:18 -0700 From: David Herron Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] JNI and java versions In-reply-to: <44C9F1C8.6080101@gmail.com> Sender: David.Herron@Sun.COM To: Alistair Bush Cc: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <44CA611A.5050900@sun.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <44C9F1C8.6080101@gmail.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) X-Archives-Salt: e3aabaf2-4d6d-4e8f-bad2-e77838c457a1 X-Archives-Hash: 390bf95171378b7c3c53f66543c6146a The JNI documentation is here: Java 5: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jni/index.html Java 6: http://download.java.net/jdk6/docs/technotes/guides/jni/index.html The 1.5 release notes are here: Java 5: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/features.html Java 6: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/features.html On a quick perusal it looks like the last changes to the JNI API happened in 1.2 ...?? Do you see some incompatibilities today? If so we'll want to hear about any. - David Herron Alistair Bush wrote: > I am just wondering about a few questions and how they could effect > gentoo's java packages. > > Manly this can be answer by... > Is the JNI interface stable between 1.4, 1.5 and 1.* versions? > > If the JNI isn't stable is there anything that we can do to provide a > transparent solution? > > Alistair -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list