Core Java™ 2 Volume II - Advanced Features, Seventh Edition

Chapter 11. Native Methods

• Calling a C Function from the Java Programming Language

• Numeric Parameters and Return Values

• String Parameters

• Accessing Fields

• Encoding Signatures

• Calling Java Methods

• Accessing Array Elements

• Handling Errors

• Using the Invocation API

• A Complete Example: Accessing The Windows Registry

We hope we have convinced you that code written in the Java programming language has a number of advantages over code written in languages like C or C++ — even for platform -specific applications. Here, of course, portability is not the issue but rather features like these:

• You are more likely to produce bug-free code with the Java programming language than with C or C++.

• Multithreading is probably easier to code in the Java programming language ...