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

Accessing Array Elements

All array types of the Java programming language have corresponding C types, as shown in Table 11-2.

Table 11-2. Correspondence Between Java Array Types and C Types

Java Type	C Type
boolean[]	jbooleanArray
byte[]	jbyteArray
char[]	jcharArray
int[]	jintArray
short[]	jshortArray
long[]	jlongArray
float[]	jfloatArray
double[]	jdoubleArray
Object[]	jobjectArray

The type jarray denotes a generic array.

C++ NOTE

In C, all these array types are actually type synonyms of jobject. In C++, however, they are arranged in the inheritance hierarchy shown in Figure 11-2. Figure 11-2. Inheritance hierarchy of array types

The GetArrayLength function returns ...