JNI allows the use of function libraries made in languages such as C, C++, VB from Java applications. The advantage of JNI is that you don't need to write the calling function definition in Java.

They have, because of this fact, switched to using Lucene – a Java-based, open source search engine library. Twitter’s Engineering Blog did say that they had to do something tweaking to Lucene ...

Minborg also introduced jextract, a tool that mechanically generates Java bindings, built upon the FFM API, from native library headers. The following example calls a native quick sort function.

If you want to master functional programming, the best place to start is with the Java Function interface. This example will show you four different ways to implement this functional interface in your ...

The entry point of a standalone Java application is the main method or function. In the age of Servlets and JSPs, Java’s main function took a backseat to these technologies that were initialized with ...