>>FFI that bypasses the JDK and interacts with native code that does either IO or OS-thread synchronization is extremely rare in Java. >I would also argue its

>>FFI that bypasses the JDK and interacts with native code that does either IO or OS-thread synchronization is extremely rare in Java. >I would also argue its rare because its hard to do. Is it? I recently had to write some simple code with C to interact with WinAPI and JNI was pretty straightforward to do.