> I think it's time to create a majordomo footer for this message that has a
> list of all the acronyms for Java...  I've seen JNI a few times, don't
> know what it is.  I've never heard of an ABI before.  Is that typo for
> API?

JNI : Java Native Interface
API : Application Program(ming) Interface [source level]
ABI : Application Binary Interface [object level]


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