New candidate JEP: 434: Foreign Function & Memory API (Second Preview)

[Duncan Gittins]

Continuing the theme of Gavin's request, I think you might get more people
to try out jextract and Panama if there were easy to find download links in
https://jdk.java.net/panama/ for versions aligned the shipped JDK 17/18/19.

This means a developer could try samples for the JDK version they already
have installed without needing to build either JDK or jextract themselves.
Hopefully it only needs posting every 6 months.

Kind regards

Duncan



On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 at 00:56, Gavin Ray <ray.gavin97 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hooray!
>
> By any chance, will there be a new release of the Panama 20ea JDK and
> jextract binaries as well?
> I've had quite some difficulties getting jextract on 20 built and it'd be
> swell to rebase some of the work I've done on the more recent API changes.
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 2:30 PM Mark Reinhold <mark.reinhold at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
>> https://openjdk.org/jeps/434
>>
>>   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.
>>
>> - Mark
>
>
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