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 1G6o7T-0002oD-RP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:40:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6TCe3xS008513; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:40:03 GMT Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6TCe2WV007118 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:40:02 GMT Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i11so30335nzi for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:40:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sy2pC07RGAAGHV+EDAuGFloIOfyu9+h9qRpICBtlPxwJRCNAc9Jr134h4wAJkSIQsc6nFc4x6VeFqrwP1W7jwNfYlxloe41intdGURj/E+p43PVDA0B5Jq538MkPDwiP++K9HNurIayxVJmCV7secoJK6lxtt38i5bzlLmJ/9h4= Received: by 10.65.112.5 with SMTP id p5mr610934qbm; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.1.1.3? ( [203.109.239.114]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 8sm4817035nzn.2006.07.29.05.39.48; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44CB570A.2020401@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:39:38 +1200 From: Alistair Bush User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) 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 To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-java] Re: JNI and java versions References: <44C9F1C8.6080101@gmail.com> <44CA611A.5050900@sun.com> In-Reply-To: <44CA611A.5050900@sun.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a6c088a7-b0cc-4c94-8b0f-20ed734fe39d X-Archives-Hash: 401b6b6ad01ababc37f89a7376ee66a8 David Herron wrote: > > 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 Thanks for the ref's > > > 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. > I personally haven't come across any. I am actually in the slow process of trying to create an ebuild for JOGL. As this uses JNI I started to wonder about the effect changes to JNI would have on the package and how something like this could be managed within the portage system. I would imagine that this could be a difficult problem for a disto like gentoo. > - 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