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Java JNI Bridge: A Framework for Mixed Native ISA Execution
New York, New York March 26-March 29
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Miaobo Chen, Intel Corporation
Shalom Goldenberg, Intel Corporation
Suresh Srinivas, Intel Corporation
Valery Ushakov, Intel Corporation
Young Wang, Intel Corporation
Qi Zhang, Intel Corporation
Eric Lin, Intel Corporation
Yoav Zach, Intel Corporation
Managed Runtime Environments (MRTEs) such as the Java platform promise a cross platform "Write Once, Deploy Anywhere" mechanism. However, MRTE applications that contain native method calls are not seamlessly portable across platforms. In this paper, we describe a new approach to transparently run Java applications containing native method calls to one ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) on a different ISA?s Java platform. This approach operates within the same operating system process that executes the application but with the support of a dynamic translator. This paper describes the technical challenges and solutions of such an in-process implementation within a production Java Virtual Machine (JVM). These include interfacing the JVM with a dynamic translator to support native calls to a different ISA, pursuing a JVM-independent implementation, enhancing the dynamic translator to support shared libraries in addition to executables, marshalling arguments across ISA boundaries, and providing full support for all Java features such as multi-threading. The paper presents performance results for an end-user application, showing our approach to be 2-3 times faster than other approaches.
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Miaobo Chen, Shalom Goldenberg, Suresh Srinivas, Valery Ushakov, Young Wang, Qi Zhang, Eric Lin, Yoav Zach, "Java JNI Bridge: A Framework for Mixed Native ISA Execution," cgo, pp.65-75, International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO'06), 2006
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