When compiling class initializers and class initialization blocks, the Java compiler stores the compiled bytecode (in top-down order) in a special method named <clinit>().

The Java platform is distributed as the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), which contains the JVM, the standard class library, and a few other items. You will need both the JRE and a JDK in order to ...

I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using something like JNA. I'm wanting to keep this under a linux environment.