JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 191 defines the Java Foreign Function Interface (FFI), which are interfaces that can bind native functions to Java methods and can manage blocks of native memory.

I use JB Toolbox every day and it pretty consistently has this much overhead. This is significantly higher memory usage than Flutter, and only a little bit better than Electron. What are your thoughts ...

JNI was introduced in JDK 1.1, which dates back to February 1997, as the primary means for interoperating between Java code and native code, typically written in C.The interface allows Java code ...

That's where JEP 454 comes in. First previewed in Java 19 and delivered in Java 22, it introduces the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API, which is designed to address those limitations and usher in a ...

I would like to have some JNI code malloc a block of memory and pass it back to my Java code (in the form of a jlong), so that future calls to other JNI functions can pass this pointer along for ...