On 13 April 2017 at 10:12, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 10:59 +0100, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d > wrote: >> […] >> >> Considering it was created in 2014, I think we're safe implementing >> extern(JNI) support either which ways. >> >> Although a little strange since nobody has completed a full JNI >> implementation yet! > > JNI will be around for decades because of the way deprecation works in > Javaland. I suspect though that if Charles gets the support of the JNA > folk to back his JNR basis for this proposal, it can all happen quite > quickly. JDK10 being possible though JDK11 more likely. >
It may be of worthy note that gcc has dropped the Java frontend (gcj) and thus the JNI from C/C++ in the compiler. If JNI can work as a library, then there's no problem, however.
