kaffe as a library

Per Bothner kaffe@rufus.w3.org
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:36:18 -0700


> Err..., when did you last look at the JNI specification? :-)

Recently, but I guess I never noticed (or forgot) the "Invocation API".
Oops.  Learn something every day ...

> JNI_CreateJavaVM() was introduced in Java 1.1, and Kaffe has supported
> it since release 0.10.1

AttachCurrentThread looks "interesting".  It seems to constrain the
implementation of Java treads to native threads, at least if you want
the full functionality.  I suspect some Java thread implementation will
not support this functionality.

	--Per Bothner
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