> Every ffi example I've found seem to operate on the assumption that you want to invoke syscalls or libc ... Java already mostly has decent facilities to inter

> Every ffi example I've found seem to operate on the assumption that you want to invoke syscalls or libc ... Java already mostly has decent facilities to interact with even without native calls. Because you would use ffi to interact with libraries that don't have Java wrappers yet: IE, you're writing the wrapper. Using syscalls or libc is a way to write an example against a known library that you're probably familiar with.