Foreign Memory API This API provides safe and efficient access to memory outside the Java heap. New concepts such as memory segments and memory layouts offer fine-grained control over memory ...

JNI was introduced in JDK 1.1, which dates back to February 1997, as the primary means for interoperating between Java code and native code, typically written in C.

If the Java code trusts it enough to use it for itself, then I think I shouldn't worry about the JVM freeing it up or unloading the library.<BR><BR>Thanks for that!