Re: [Openjnlp-devel] ClassLoader, Native Methods, and Java 1.1

[Doug Z. <dz...@ho...>]

At 2:04 PM -0700 11/20/01, Kevin Herrboldt wrote:
>The inner workings of handling native libraries is a bit involved,
>especially for Java 1.1 platforms. Java2 class loaders can implement
>ClassLoader.findLibrary() to return an appropriate location for the
>nativelib, but this is not the case with Java 1.1. Trying to get
>nativelib stuff working in OpenJNLP for both Java2 and Java 1.1 are high
>on the list, but is it worth holding up the next release? I could go
>either way since more and more people want nativelib support, but it's
>difficult to test.

I guess I wasn't very clear. I'm looking for suggestions on
how I can hack the 0.4 class loader to handle native methods,
not asking your team to shuffle the schedule and move it up.
I feel bad enough dragging you away to answer these questions!

>> pointers to documentation on the inner workings of a ClassLoader.
>
>A description of how native stuff works for Java 1.1 is at
><http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/native1.1/index.html>.

Am I missing something? I thought that page was just the basics of
JNI, I could find nothing there on how the native code actually gets
loaded. If you have a link to a page on that subject, I would
appreciate your sharing it.

     -DCZ