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JNI is often scoffed at for being insanely difficult.

JNA aims to make it easier for you to access native code, and I heard about it from Romain (they used it in their Swing makeover talk to do cool windows).

I have heard of a mythical group at Sun who created a simple way to load a DLL/SO and allow you to go right after it. Some at Sun didn't like the idea as it would be so easy, that some users may go native too often.

I need to look closer at it, but in theory it looks really good.