I'm building a J2EE project, in which I would like to use an API which is only available in C.
I was thinking of using JNI to do so, but after a quick look at this tutorial, it looks that I in order to use JNI, I need to have the source code (.c files) to compile some kind of "JNI library".
In my case, the API only comports the .h with the signature of all the methods, and the already compiled .dll (or .so).
How could I do this?
Thank you!
JNA is a JNI-based library that allows calling normal C functions without needing a JNI-specific wrapper for each one.
Check out JNA. It allows you to use the .DLL directly. All you need to do is write a Java interface with the same functions you need from the .DLL.
Create a small C wrapper for the native library, compile this to a .dll/.so.
For each needed function in the existing C api, create one JNI-compliant C function which simply calls the real API.
JNI offers a pretty low level API for interfacing your Java code with native code. If you are OK with shelling out money, Jinvoke looks like a pretty good alternative which doesn't require you to write any C/C++ code. The plus here is that you get full paid support. If you don't require it, you can go with JNA. Anything but JNI IMO...
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I have method/function to get the drive info using Visual C++ of Microsoft Visual Studio. The method only return the type of drive. But it is become difficult when I'm trying to get more information about the drive. This difficulty gets resolved by Java's existing package. Furthermore, few codes are also there which is easy to handle with C platform. So, I'm thinking, if there is any efficient process which can include a native C code with in Java so that the functionality of both the language can be used in meaningful way.
Can anyone help me in this regard?
Java Native Access (JNA) is a way you can access C libraries from Java code. Its advantage over Java Native Interface (JNI) is that the library glue code is written in Java, not C, making it more maintainable.
(I've used JNA a lot at work. If I get permission from work, I may be able to post the JNA stuff I've written, as examples for you to work with.)
I have a general question according an android app, I need to use some pcap functionality in my android app. Because java does not give the possibility in raw packet injections and low layer programming (as far as I know, pls correct me if I'm wrong) so I was looking for an alternative. So far I found the following:
ANDROID NDK
JNETPCAP
Any suggestions which one I should use or does anyone have other suggestions?
The JNI Solution
You need to wrap the calls and the logic you need out of libpcap in C or C++ and expose the underlying functions through JNI (Java Native Interface) so your application can call native code in Java.
The documentation on JNI is pretty complete on internet, a lot of tutorials exists on this subject such as this one.
If you want to easily wrap native code in JNI you can use Swig which allow you to automatically generate JNI code based on your C/C++ native headers.
The obtained JNI code should be compiled using the Android NDK as a dynamic library (.so). This library is to be placed in your application package under libs/. You can then invoke System.loadLibrary(path_to_you_dynamic_library) to load all the symbols contained in the library and use them in Java.
Using a third-party library
If you're afraid of getting headaches while figuring out how to use JNI, you can look at this library which does the hard work for you, and provides an API to manipulate raw sockets in Java.
http://www.savarese.com/software/rocksaw/
You need to wrap the calls and the logic you need out of libpcap in C or C++ and expose the underlying functions through JNI (Java Native Interface) so your application can call native code in Java.
Or you need to get a library that's already done that, such as, err, umm, jNetPcap.
One problem you may have with any attempt to do packet capture on Android - or any other OS using the Linux kernel - is that, by default, the underlying kernel mechanism used by libpcap (PF_PACKET sockets) requires root privileges. If there's a way to run your code as root, or to give it CAP_NET_RAW and possibly CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges, it might be possible to make it work.
I have a java code and created a jar file.
I need to create an Qt application. Can I use this code in that application?
Please help me how can i use that jar file.
Thanks,
Nagaraju.
You could take a look at the capabilities of GCC/GCJ (see http://gcc.gnu.org/ ). IF it's a good idea is a whole other story, and depends on what you have, and what you're trying to accomplish. It should be doable to link SO's created with GCJ in QT applications, but I seriously wonder if you are not better off using either C++ or Java, but not mixing them
If your Java code takes input from stdin or some file and writes output to stdout or some file, then the easiest way is to fork java to run that jar, and parse the output in your Qt code.
Things other than that, you'll need to be a bit specific. Something like "my Java code does painting the screen".
My advice is to use SWT or Swing.
You can use gcj gcj to compile the java code to library and simply call the functions of the java code from your C code.
Yes, you can use your jar file in your Qt application. I've done exactly this myself.
One way is to use the JNI Invocation API. This is part of the Java Native Interface (JNI), which makes it feasible but not pleasant to access Java APIs from C++.
A much more pleasant approach is to use CodeMesh JunC++ion, which wraps the Java APIs in C++ classes. This is a great product, if you can afford it.
If you have very little Java code, it may be easier to port it to C++.
I want to create native Mac OS X application using Cocoa + Objective C but I need to connect to proprietary data source, and for this, owner of the data source only provides Java library. So I need to somehow import this Java library into my project and call functions on its Java classes.(Or create java wrapper around this library and then call my wrapper from objective-C).
Now, how can I do this? Quick google search leads me to JNI but I haven't found any good and actual(current) article/tutorial. I would really need some HOW TO article, how to load this java library, start VM if needed, and how to create java objects and call functions on them. Really something simple and I can move from there. Thanks.
Just to clarify, I repeat: I WANT to call Java functions from Objective-C, I do NOT want to call native functions from Java.
You're probably looking for the Invocation API, a little-known corner of Java Native Interface (JNI) which allows you to load the Java runtime in-process.
That said, you might have an easier time of it with a Java service application that communicates with your Objective-C application over network sockets.
You're looking for the Java-Objective C bridge, try looking at this article or on Apple's developer site. Be aware it is deprecated, that is it isn't being kept up to date with changes to Cocoa. But if you're just using it for an API passing standard Java datatypes you should be OK.
Do you know of a Java library to access the native linux api?
I guess something like this must use JNI. So be it.
Have a look at JNA.
Here is the summary of JNA from their home page.
JNA provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries (DLLs on Windows) without writing anything but Java code—no JNI or native code is required. This functionality is comparable to Windows' Platform/Invoke and Python's ctypes. Access is dynamic at runtime without code generation.
See their getting started page for some samples. Like calling native printf.
jtux might help depending on what you want to do.
You can use: Runtime.exec to execute anything you want...
SWIG makes life easier than "raw" JNI with javah etc.