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Calling a DLL from Java

Posted by tfejes on January 15, 2001 at 8:34 AM

You will have to use "Java Native Interface" (JNI).
I suggest "The Java Native Interface" by Sheng Liang.
If it is a simple library, it will be easier to rewrite
it in Java than use JNI.

> Hai,

> I have a doubt here, that how to call a DLL from a Java application. DLL is a already written one. That is working fine in C applications. Now i want to make use of that DLL in my Java applications. How can i call that same.
> I have seen in some book that they all say to create a new c library and use loadlibrary after that. They didn't say anything about calling an existing DLL.
> So can you clear this doubt.

> Thank You

> Regards
> Raj M.

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