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I'm a newby about JNI.
I have an application write in C++ and I have to migrate it to Java.
I have seen that JNI permit to call c++ methods that return only
primitive type as string or int.
My question is simple: if I have a C++ class that we call "ClassA", can
I instance an object "ClassA" in Java that run the constructor and
where can I call the methods of "ClassA" as I was in C++?

I want something like this in Java:

jClassA a;
jClassB b
b = h.methodClassA(int d);


Can I do that?

Thank you!

On 21 Mar 2006 07:07:46 -0800, flack wrote:
> I have an application write in C++ and I have to migrate it to Java.
> I have seen that JNI permit to call c++ methods that return only
> primitive type as string or int.

Not just primitives: you can pass *any* Java types (primitives or
Objects) between Java and native code. Please note that String is not
a primitive.


> My question is simple: if I have a C++ class that we call "ClassA",
> can I instance an object "ClassA" in Java that run the constructor
> and where can I call the methods of "ClassA" as I was in C++?

No. JNI doesn't let you invoke arbitrary methods written in C or C++,
or create C++ objects.

JNI is a mechanism that lets you implement some (or all) of a Java
class's methods in C or C++. Furthermore those methods must have been
written with the intent of being called through JNI, i.e. they must
use signatures and data types as defined by JNI, and follow a specific
calling convention.

However from those native methods you are free to create C++ objects
and invoke their methods however you like.

JNI also lets your native code invoke any Java methods or
constructors, or access fields in Java objects.

/gordon

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Are you sure that there isn't some trick to use c++ methods?

The doubt is coming when I have read this post:
http://groups.google.it/group/comp.l...c2b31639123573

What do you think about that?

On 21 Mar 2006 09:49:18 -0800, flack wrote:
> Are you sure that there isn't some trick to use c++ methods?

Did you actually read the thread you referred to?

The example shows that it is possible to call a native method, and
_from_there_ create the C++ object. If you read my earlier answer,
you'll see that this is exactly what I said you must do.

The only "trick" here is that the C++ pointer is passed back to Java
as an int (although I would recommend a long).

You still can't use the object from Java. To do anything meaningful
with it you must first pass it back to a native method, then cast it
to whatever object it once was.

/gordon

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On 21 Mar 2006 07:07:46 -0800, "flack" <>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>jClassA a;
>jClassB b
>b = h.methodClassA(int d);
>

Normally, Java calls C/C++, but you can do the reverse. Normally you
just pass primitives back and forth. On the C++ side, you can create a
Java object with the JNI API and populate its fields and return it,
most commonly a String.

You can also create C++ objects and use them on the C++ side. They
mean nothing on the Java side so you can't bring them over into Java
without converting them to Java objects first.


see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jni.html
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On 21 Mar 2006 16:28:45 +0100, Gordon Beaton <> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>No. JNI doesn't let you invoke arbitrary methods written in C or C++,
>or create C++ objects.

More precisely, from Java you cannot create arbitrary C or C++
objects, but of course you can create them on the C++ side.
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:20:19 GMT, Roedy Green wrote:
> More precisely, from Java you cannot create arbitrary C or C++
> objects, but of course you can create them on the C++ side.

Which is exactly what I wrote a couple of sentences later.

/gordon

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On 21 Mar 2006 20:02:08 +0100, Gordon Beaton <> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>Which is exactly what I wrote a couple of sentences later.

I thought your explanation was going over OP's head. So I decided to
restate it in a more elementary way.
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First, thanks to all for response.

I haven't understand how I can manage the object pointer.
Can someone do an explicit example?
We can suppose that we have in java this code:

public class JObject {

private final long objectPtr = 0;
private native void objectCreate();

public static void main(String[] args){
JObject my = new JObject();
my.objectCreate();
}
}



In native code what will we write?

JNIEXPORT void JNICALL
Java_objectManager_objectCreate(JNIEnv *env, jobject obj)
{

CppObject *ptr = 0;
CppObject myCppObject;
ptr = &myCppObject;

??????????????????

}


Can someone rewrite correctly the above code with the target to
instance a C++ class (CppObject) and return to Java its pointer?

Thank you!!!!!

On 26 Mar 2006 17:19:39 -0800, unodivoi wrote:
> Can someone rewrite correctly the above code with the target to
> instance a C++ class (CppObject) and return to Java its pointer?

It's trivial if you declare the native method so that it *returns* the
long:

private native long objectCreate();

Then:

return (jlong)&myCppObject;

/gordon

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