(Java Native Interface) A programming interface (API) in Sun's Java Virtual Machine used for calling native platform elements such as GUI routines. RNI (Raw Native Interface) is the JNI counterpart in Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine.
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- JNIWrapper 3.8 (Windows)
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- Software downloads 2009-09-11
- Program for Android in C/C++ with the Native Development Kit (if you dare)
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- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- OOJNI Add-in for VS2005-2008 3.00.00 (Windows)
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- Software downloads 2009-06-08
- Google I/O: Mastering the Android Media Framework
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- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Google I/O: How do I code thee? Let me count the ways
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- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- com.sigh.jar X.1.0.0 (Mac)
- A Java package that emulates the c-programming language's sprintf and strftime. This package does not require nor use JNI. Designed for use with eclipse. Just drop into your plugins folder and add to the project's properties. Includes processing: %u Shorts and Bytes are not converted to Integers before processing %n...
- Software downloads 2009-04-25
- WinPack 3.7 (Windows)
- WinPack is a free, open-source add-on to JNIWrapper enabling access to the Windows native API and libraries from Java code. It requires no extensive knowledge of the Win32 API, nor writing cumbersome wrapper classes for JNI. You write code in the Java language, implementing Windows-specific functionality with WinPack classes.
- Software downloads 2008-12-08
- 50 questions asked and answered on Android
- At the very end of the Google I/O 2008 conference last week the Android development team hosted a great fireside chat on the new mobile platform. The session was free-form, completely driven by questions from the audience. Although Google was trying to keep mum on a number of issues, several...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- JWINAPI 1 (Windows)
- JWinAPI is a small subset of the Windows API that can be implemented natively by Java applications. It is very helpful to those of you that write Java applications that run on the Windows platform. As you know, Java has no real visibility into Windows because of the way it...
- Software downloads 2008-05-29
- Cosmos%3A+An+open-source+.Net-based+microkernel+OS+is+born
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- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Best Practices for AFP Resource Caching in a IBM Content Manager OnDemand Web Enablement Kit Java API Application
- This paper describes how the IBM Content Management OnDemand Web Enablement Kit Java APIs referred to hereafter as simply ODWEK handle the caching of AFP Resource data in memory, and how to avoid excessive system load by caching large AFP Resources to file using ODWEK Java APIs. The paper also...
- White papers 2007-12-15
- ReByte 2.1.1 (Windows)
- ReByte provides simple-to-use GUI for defining complex Java and C# classes, generated from the tool or via a command-line. The classes serialize to or from byte arrays, which can be passed between software components via messaging, sockets, JNI, RMI. Binary format of data is compatible between C# and Java classes....
- Software downloads 2007-10-19
- Polarion blinks in struggle over Subversion
- Polarion Software is donating the subversion.com domain name to the Subversion Corporation, a non-profit stewardship organization created to support the development of Subversion. Subversion is a popular open source version control package widely seen as the successor to CVS. The announcement will be made at the SubConf 2007 conference in...
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- JexePack 7.0c (Windows)
- JexePack allows software developers to package Java applications, along with its resources like GIF, JPG, JNI DLLs, into a single compressed 32-bit Windows EXE that targets multiple Java runtime environments. Fully supports both Java console and windowed applications. Allows you to specify an icon for your EXE. Version 7.0c a...
- Software downloads 2007-10-16
- Sun needs an answer to iPhone ASAP, lest Java wither on the vine
- Sun needs an answer to iPhone ASAP, lest Java wither on the vineHuh?I assume there is some sort of point to this? I missed it. I think I am dumber now for having read this...The answer is out thereit's called mobile Linux!If you want Java, then go Linux. Otherwise...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.6.9c (Windows)
- AMPC compiles ANSI C programs directly into Java bytecodes to run on any platform where a Java runtime is available. AMPC can also be used to integrate C and Java programs since AMPC's C functions can directly call numerous Java methods and vice versa. AMPC supports ANSI C 1989 (ISO...
- Software downloads 2007-09-18
- Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.6.9 (Mac)
- AMPC compiles ANSI C programs directly into Java bytecodes to run on any platform where a Java runtime is available. AMPC can also be used to integrate C and Java programs since AMPC's C functions can directly call numerous Java methods and vice versa. AMPC supports ANSI C 1989 (ISO...
- Software downloads 2007-09-14
- Jar2Exe Standard Edition 1.8 (Windows)
- Jar2Exe is a tool to convert jar files into exe files. The principium of this software is to start Java virtual machine using JNI interface. Basing on this, we have provided more other advanced features. Version 1.8 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
- Software downloads 2007-08-17
- OOJNI for .NET2.0 (low-level) 1.00.11 (Windows)
- Object-Oriented JNI for .NET (low-level), Library for .NET Framework v.2.0. Supports Standard JNI interface for developing and running code in C#, MCpp, VB, J#. The main features available: - JNI code can be written only in managed code; - supported .NET languages: C#, VB, J#, Managed C++; - implements regular...
- Software downloads 2007-04-18
- OOJNI Add-in .NET for VS7.1 1.00.14 (Windows)
- Object-Oriented JNI Advanced Add-In is a tool developed for MS Visual Studio. It generates C++ code OOJNI classes and managed code (OOJNI for .NET classes) in MCPP, C#, J#, VB for java byte code selected and includes it into the active project. It also makes JNI implementation of Java class...
- Software downloads 2007-04-18
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