There already are alternatives for JNI. You can use JNR[0] and JNA[1] which allow you to access native libraries by writing java. In some future version panama

There already are alternatives for JNI. You can use JNR[0] and JNA[1] which allow you to access native libraries by writing java. In some future version panama[2] will offer similar functionality to JNR. [0] https://github.com/jnr/jnr-ffi https://github.com/jnr/jnr-ffi [1] https://github.com/java-native-access/jna https://github.com/java-native-access/jna [2]http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/ http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/