This post will reveal (a small fraction of) my vast ignorance, so for those who
know what JNI is, might be worth reading if just for entertainment value.
We have a very simple API that we'd like to enable for use from WAS
applications on z/OS. Currently we support any standard language that calls us
with an OS/360-style plist, passing pointers to character strings and to
fullword lengths of those strings. The API is assembler, and doesn't do much: a
bit of validation, and then a PC over to a started task. Let's pretend it's a
REVERSE function, so gets called (from C):
rc = reverse(string, length);
>From my reading, it appears that JNI is the way to go here. I know that JNI is
>considered A Bad Thing (to quote my manager), but reading
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Native_Interface#Pitfalls doesn't leave me
>concerned-none of those seem like anything that will affect us.
Some Googling finds Integrating Java with Existing Data and Applications on
OS/390 (SG24-5142-00), which is from 1998 (!) and Java Stand-alone Applications
on z/OS Volume II (SG24-7291-00), which is "only" 8 years old. But presumably
this stuff still applies.
So it all seems pretty straightforward, but if someone had a trivial example
they could share, that would help.
Questions:
1) Is it reasonable to expect that a Java program running in batch
(assuming that's even a possible environment?) could use the same JNI shims?
2) What other pitfalls should we expect?
3) What questions am I not asking that I should be?
Thanks,
...phsiii
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