JNI won't be removed. Therefore, it won't replace it. But it is certainly a much better way to interact with native APIs. It's similar to the original Calenda

JNI won't be removed. Therefore, it won't replace it. But it is certainly a much better way to interact with native APIs. It's similar to the original Calendar API (as old as Java 1.1) versus the new Date/Time API introduced in Java 8.