Design cross-platform Java UIs with native performance (IBM developerWorks)

[Posted March 10, 2004 by cook]

Vladimir Silva develops cross-platform GUI code on IBM's developerWorks. "Can you write Java code that compiles across several platforms but still performs as fast as native code? This is a problem that has vexed Java developers, particularly when it comes to applications with complex UIs. In this article, developer Vladimir Silva proposes an interesting solution to this problem. You'll learn how to use JNI to access SLIK, a cross-platform C API that offers native performance on both Windows and UNIX."