Re: Call system API from Java

Pete Helgren <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.java
Message-ID <[email protected]>
There really isn't any particular reason, it just seems like "native" is 
the better way to go, especially if I can 1) Learn something new and 2) 
If the effort isn't a whole lot more than using JT400.

I have done a bit of JNI stuff in Windows/Linux and with wasn't too 
hairy.  Just wondered about IBM i and doing the same.

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
Twitter - Sys_i_Geek  IBM_i_Geek

On 2/24/2020 9:58 AM, David Gibbs via JAVA400-L wrote:
> On 2/22/20 5:01 PM, Pete Helgren wrote:
>> Can't seem to find an example of this that doesn't involve using the 
>> jt400 toolkit or PCML.  I also thought *I* had written one of these 
>> at one time but can't seem to dig it up.  The goal is to make a call 
>> to a system API in Java. Similar, I guess, to the Java API's that 
>> wrap system API's found in JT400 (which must exist but I haven't 
>> found a good example there either)
>
> Pete:
>
> I'm curious ... why not use JT400?  PCML makes program calls very easy 
> and portable.
>
> david
>
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