Just found the Java Native Access library for dynamic access to native libraries without JNI. Sweet. Had been using the JNI wrapper, which provided similar functionality, (but cost money and had licensing encrustations) previously. Glad to see this available as it makes it far easier for me to start integrating with C based physics engines (ODE) and 3D gaming engines (OGRE) in the 3rd Space project.
Tensegrity
for my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in code with even more distinctness than that which I conceived it
The tech blog of Hal Hildebrand
« JSR 277 - Mostly Harmless or a Good Thing For OSGi? | Main | Distributed OSGi - On The Scent Of Red Herrings »
Nice little gem - JNA
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.hellblazer.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/3126
Search
About
This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on April 16, 2008 6:28 AM.
The previous post in this blog was JSR 277 - Mostly Harmless or a Good Thing For OSGi?.
The next post in this blog is Distributed OSGi - On The Scent Of Red Herrings.
Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.
Powered by
Movable Type 3.34
Movable Type 3.34
Comments (2)
I just discovered JNA also, but if you trying to integrate ODE and OGRE with JNA, you're wasting your time IMO. Ogre will be about 10x slower (according to the JNA developers). Take a look at Ogre4j, and ODEJava, both of which are Java bindings to Ogre4j and ODE, but written with JNI (which is much faster, as native calls are not determined at run-time).
Posted by Helpful Guy | June 20, 2008 1:11 PM
Posted on June 20, 2008 13:11
I've actually done a bit of work in this area since I wrote this post. I worked with the underlying mechanism for the OGRE4J project, so I could get things running on the Mac. It's what I intend to use moving forward.
Posted by Hal | June 20, 2008 1:36 PM
Posted on June 20, 2008 13:36