Duration: 22:43

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In this talk we explore how programming languages such as Java and C interact with each other via the Java Native Interface.

JNI overview
Cross-language debugging in with GDB and JDB
Memory management across languages
Memory leaks in Java and how to plug them
Java to C and C to Java
Class and Struct mirroring
Pointers vs References
JNI: Batteries not included
Frameworks for connecting C to Python, R, C#, GO, Javascript
Example: SWT project. Java GUI (SWT) built on top of C GUI (GTK)
Setting up Eclipse for cross-language development

This talk is for developers who are curious as to how programming languages interact with each other.

Speaker(s):
Leo Ufimtsev (Red Hat inc.)