Institute of Information Theories and Applications FOI ITHEA
Abstract:
This paper describes the process of wrapping existing scientific codes in the domain of plasma physics
simulations through the use of the Sun’s Java Native Interface. We have created a Java front-end for a particular
functionality, offered by legacy native libraries, in order to achieve reusability and interoperability without having to
rewrite these libraries. The technique, introduced in this paper, includes two approaches – the one-to-one
mapping for wrapping a number of native functions, and using peer classes for wrapping native data structures.
