JNI again

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> Daniel:
> 
>   I agree heartily; anything to make it easier to embed Kaffe in products
> would be a plus.
> 
>   I just noticed that Sun now says something about being able to
> redistribute native programs that invoke Java through the JNI; this is a
> 180 of their position (it means I don't need a source license to embed Java
> in my .exe) and may mean that Kaffe is less important to me than it once
> was; however, anything to make the Java language unencumbered would be a
> very, very good thing.
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> > From: Daniel Dittmar <dittmar at berlin.snafu.de>
> > To: kaffe at soi.city.ac.uk
> > Subject: JNI again
> > Date: Tuesday, August 12, 1997 4:39 PM
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Another reason why Kaffe should support JNI or something similar:
> > I would like to embed Kaffe in a server. As requests are handled in
> > parallel, Java VMs should be independant of another. JNI solves this by
> > passing a Java Environment variable into every routine while Kaffe seems
> > to rely on global variables. As this parameter is passed through all
> > routines, it isn't something I care to do on my own (as it would have to
> > be repeated in eevery release). So even if Kaffe doesn't adopt JNI, it
> > would still be very useful (at least to me) if a pointer to the VM would
> > be passed along.
> > 
> > Daniel Dittmar (mailto:dittmar at berlin.snafu.de)
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I have received this message, many times, as well as some others even older,
is there a problem with the mail-server ?
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