About JNI.NET

JNI.NET is a set of bindings for the .NET platform of the Java Native Interface (JNI). JNI.NET allows direct invocation of Java libraries from.NET. For convenience, JNI.NET provides a.NET shared assembly of the Java runtime. JNI.NET is part of the free open source project Caffeine [1].

The foundation of JNI.NET are a set of.NET bindings for JNI using P/Invoke. The core of JNI.NET is a generator toolchain that generates C# proxy classes which replicate 1:1 their Java peers, and provides the necessary plumbing, via JNI, to call the Java VM.

JNI.NET is licensed under an MIT/X OSI certified license. You should have received a LICENSE file in the same directory as this README file.

Obtaining JNI.NET

You can download packaged releases and daily tarballs of Caffeine JNI.NET from [1].

The version control archive coordinates of JNI.NET (using GNU arch) are:

archive: [email protected] location: http://caffeine.berlios.de/{archives}/2004

project: jni-net--devel--0.1

Requirements

Linux requirements

For binary distribution:

* Mono 0.91 (beta 1) or higher
* J2SE 1.4, or compatible, or higher

For source distribution, binary requirements plus:

* Monodoc 0.10

Windows requirements

For binary distribution:

* Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Redistributable
* J2SE 1.4, or compatible, or higher

For source distribution, binary requirements plus:

* Microsoft .NET Framework SDK 1.1
* Microsoft's Windows Platform SDK

Examples

You can see several examples under the examples directory. examples/generators contains an example on how to use the generators toolchain to create a .NET assembly out of a Java library.

Documentation

Please visit [1] for further documentation.

Credits

* Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz (maintainer).
* Pekka Enberg (contributor).

Feedback

Please send all feedback, bug reports and patches to:

[email protected].

References

[1] http://caffeine.berlios.de/