JEP proposed to target JDK 18: 419: Foreign Function & Memory API (Second Incubator)

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Wed Nov 24 00:20:28 UTC 2021


2021/11/15 16:24:15 -0800, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 18:
> 
>   419: Foreign Function & Memory API (Second Incubator)
>        https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/419
> 
>   Summary: Introduce an API by which Java programs can interoperate with
>   code and data outside of the Java runtime. By efficiently invoking
>   foreign functions (i.e., code outside the JVM), and by safely accessing
>   foreign memory (i.e., memory not managed by the JVM), the API enables
>   Java programs to call native libraries and process native data without
>   the brittleness and danger of JNI.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 18.

- Mark


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