I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using something like JNA. I'm wanting to keep this under a linux environment.

Like the word “ain’t,” the educated Java developer masses seem to be almost universally in agreement that the static import should be used sparingly. The reasoning here is obvious.

A new project from Oracle seeks to solve the nagging problem of slow Java startup times and other performance-related issues. Dubbed Project Leyden, the effort will address these pain points by ...