Re: RFC: Require VM to provide JNI 1.2 support?

[Archie Cobbs]

Steven Augart wrote:
> Classpath currently uses only JNI 1.1, except for one JNI 1.2 function
> in the JNI Invocation API: GetEnv().  And GetEnv() is only used in the
> --portable-native-sync code, so it's only actually used by Jikes RVM
> and Kaffe.  
> 
> Mark has suggested that it might be a good idea for the next release
> of GNU Classpath to require that the VM provide JNI 1.2.  He's asked
> me to post this Request for Comments on the idea.
> 
> Feedback?

Sounds like a good idea to me (but that's easy for me to say because JC
already supports 1.2).

-Archie

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