JEP proposed to target JDK 21: 442: Foreign Function & Memory API (Third Preview)

[Mark Reinhold]

2023/4/14 6:27:40 -0700, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 21:
> 
>   442: Foreign Function & Memory API (Third Preview)
>        https://openjdk.org/jeps/442
> 
>   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.  This is a preview API.
> 
> Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
> is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
> are raised by 23:59 UTC on Friday, 21 April, or if they’re raised and
> then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [2]
> I’ll target this JEP to JDK 21.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 21.

- Mark