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Advocates of open source Java are moving forward with an effort to let Java programmers access non-Java APIs, including many interfaces used by C programmers.

Called Project Panama, the proposal is being floated on an opnjdk open-source Java mailing list and picking up support. "The main benefit of this proposal is that it will open up the world of native libraries -- written in C or similar languages -- to Java developers without requiring them to write anything but plain Java code," said Panama proponent Charles Nutter, who co-led the development of the JRuby language. "You just specify what library to load, what function you want to access, and its parameters and return value and the API should do the rest."

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