Native Access Tools

Java Native Access

JNI binding generator (runtime)

Java Native Access Platform

A library for invoking native functions from java

JNA provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries (DLLs on Windows) without writing anything but Java code no JNI or native code is required. This functionality is comparable to Windows' Platform/Invoke and Python's ctypes. Access is dynamic at runtime without code generation.

Java API that wraps the native library used to access low-level system resources natively.

JACOB is a JAVA-COM Bridge that allows you to call COM Automation components from Java. It uses JNI to make native calls to the COM libraries. JACOB runs on x86 and x64 environments supporting 32 bit and 64 bit JVMs.

Lightweight convenience for loading JNI natives.

Plugin provides support for Native Access using JNA library.

JNAerator (pronounce "generator") simply parses C and Objective-C headers and generates the corresponding JNA and Rococoa Java interfaces (it also has a very limited support for C++). This lets Java programmers access native libraries transparently, with full IDE support and little to no hand-tweaking. Users who are looking for ready-to-use libraries should check the NativeLibs4Java project instead.