[PPL-devel] [Fwd: Re: Some troubles I met while building PPL.]

[Enea Zaffanella]

Enea Zaffanella wrote:
> Yuriy Taraday wrote:
>> The JNI API guarantees that jobject is just a simple reference (weak 
>> or strong) to an object, without any overhead, all garbage collector 
>> stuff (reference counting etc.) must be performed explicitly with a 
>> corresponding calls. So jobject isn't larger than a pointer and it's 
>> safe to pass it by value.
> 
> Fine.
> 
> We are currently doing a whole pass through the Java interface glue 
> code: this change will be included among others. I will notify you when 
> we are ready, so that you will be able to give it a try.

ops ... I was almost forgetting about this notification.

We completed the pass on the Java interface. Notice that, differently 
from ppl-0.10.2, in the current git master branch the library has to be 
explicitly initialized (after loading it) by calling static method

   Parma_Polyhedra_Library.initialize_library()

This function, besides appropriately setting the floating point rounding 
mode, will also load JNI class/field/method ID caches. As reported in 
the NEWS file, the Java interface now supports basic timeout facilities.

Please report to ppl-devel any residual issue you may notice.

Cheers,
Enea Zaffanella.