HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared July 10 1996
Foil 187 Comments on Native C Methods
From Basic Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics Networking Trip to China and Icase Tutorial -- July 12-28 and June 10-13 96. byGeoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Advantages
May call resources available from C
Window/Graphic Systems
Database
Networking
Other Third Party Libraries
Disadvantages
Classes with native methods, or library linking calls, may not be downloaded across the network.
Libraries may not be downloaded across the network.
Programmer must write a native library for every platform used.
So usually user defined native method can not be used remotely in Applet.
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