In today’s world most systems are architected as a set of services implemented in different programming languages deployed on multiple hardware platforms. Often it is required for a piece of software written in a different programming language than the module it needs to interface with. I have been in situations when modules written in C# or Java had the need to interface with code written using the C programming language (typically for performance, separations of concern reasons or to allow the Java program access functionality written in a different language). Continue reading “Java Native Interface (JNI)”