Re: Access to memory managed by C module over JNI
Sune wrote:
Prereq:
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- The lookup service (see below) implemented by a C module cannot be
re-written in Java ;-)
- The lookup service is to be loaded into the process of the Java
application, i.e. I want to avoid expensive IPC
You asked the same question in the C# group. Do you need the
solution in Java or C# or both ?
1)
I got a C module that organizes a big block of memory into a fairly
nice lookup service. This C module exposes a C API that I guess I
would best access from a Java application by using JNI, right? Are
there any other choices than JNI?
I believe JNI is the only solution.
2)
From my understanding, Java being a pointerless language, Java client
code cannot by any means, by mistake, access the memory block managed
by the C module. Is this correct? Does JNI in any way make this less
true? For example, are there mechanisms in JNI that uses physical
pointers for efficiency?
A Java reference is more or less a pointer.
But Java throws exceptions if you try and go over an arrays
boundaries.
So you can not overwrite memory by accident.
JNI code is C code and it can overwrite just any other C code.
Arne
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