How do I call dll inside Java?

Question

How do I call a DLL inside Java program ?

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 21 '09 at 05:32

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The canonical answer is JNI. However, this is somewhat painful. Other options:

answered Apr 21 '09 at 05:32

Jon Skeet

If you also add which one is the latest and best that would have been helpful too. Like initialy it was JNI. Then someone wrote a better solution Swig. Then finding Swig's limitation some wrote JNA which is double faster than Swig etc – CDR Apr 21 '09 at 06:22
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Unfortunately I don't know that history. – Jon Skeet Apr 21 '09 at 06:36

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 21 '09 at 05:27

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System.load("C:\\Windows\\System32\\yourdllname.dll");

if thats your path to your dll

answered Apr 21 '09 at 05:27

TStamper

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