9.2 Programming with ZXID Java API

For detailed usage examples of the Java interface you should study the zxid.java file.

The Java interface is contained in a package called zxidjava. This package contains the main wrapper class zxidjni as well as a number of data type specific classes. The zxidjni class is just a container for procedural zxid API - all methods of this class are static.

To start using the ZXID Java interface you need to do two things:

  import zxidjava.*;

somewhere near top of your program pulls in the zxidjava package, including the zxidjni class. Then you need to have a static initializer smewhere in your program to pull in the libzxidjni.so:

  public class myprog {
    static {
      System.loadLibrary("zxidjni");
    }

    public static void main(String argv[]) throws java.io.IOException
    {
      // ...
    }
  }

From here on you can call the C API procedures as static methods of the zxidjni class, e.g:

  cf = zxidjni.new_conf("/var/zxid/");

Note that the zxid_ prefix is omitted in favour of the zxidjni class name qualifier.