[F2j-devel] jlapack nni and javadocs

[seth l. <set...@gm...>]

we're using lapack in a java app. we use swig to generate jni wrappers
around mkl and acml (and could support others the same way) and then
we provide a consistent interface to the different implementations.
it's workable, but results in some duplication of code, and we only
expose a subset of blas/lapack.

mtj is a project that uses jlapack as it's abstraction, and provides
an nni (native numeric interface) to allow backing jlapack with a
native implementation. this is the approach that i've been advocating,
either using jlapack or mtj/jlapack (probably the latter). but recent
versions of mtj removes the nni source, and mentions migrating it to
jlapack. but i haven't found any mention of nni in the jlapack/f2j
site or code.

1. do you know anything about nni in jlapack, either good or bad or
how to obtain it ? is there a cvs/svn branch that has this code ?

2. i have the jlapack javadocs that netlib/f2j provides, but they are
class oriented instead of method oriented (i'd like code completion
dialog to show the comments). how are the javadocs (
http://netlib.sandia.gov/java/f2j/jlapack-0.8-javadoc.tgz ) generated
? are they an output from f2j ? copy-and-pasted by hand ?

thanks
seth