CurrentState

Current State of the BridJ project

Binaries are currently available and routinely tested for the following platforms :

(plans are to support FreeBSD 32/64 and Solaris sparc soon)

thread-safe design (including reentrant calls)
JNAerator support on par with JNA's
C functions calls with __cdecl and __stdcall conventions (including varargs support)
C++ constructors, method calls and destructors (including virtual methods, __thiscall and __stdcall conventions)
C++ classes subclassing from Java (override virtual C++ methods from Java !)
lazy signatures annotation support (exact symbols are optional)
Call C callbacks from Java and call Java-implemented callbacks from C
Complete Pointers API (with typed opaque pointers, array accessible + iterable reified generic Pointer base class...)
Type-safe enums (ValuedEnum + FlagSet classes) : unifies singleton and multi-flags patterns
COM object creation and calls, with some support for the VARIANT type
lightweight and fast structs (no memory duplication nor update issues between Java and the native side), with unions and sub-structs
Getting the native handler to an AWT Component's peer
Dynamic function pointers casting (see Pointer.asDynamicFunction)
Enumeration of shared libraries symbols (w/ demangling) and resolution of libraries paths (including support for GNU LD scripts)

structs by value not supported yet (neither as function arguments nor as function return values)
requires Java 1.5 or more recent (if you need 1.4 compatibility, you shoud JNA instead)

assembly-optimized raw calls (for Win32, Win64, Mac64, Linux32, Linux64) : win64 is buggy, lin32 is TODO, mac is buggy with floats and doubles (of course, buggy implies disabled)
C++ templates for functions and classes (combination of generics and extra args/fields for types reification and last-minute lookup of actual symbols). Begins to work with GCC.
ObjectiveC methods calls (objc_msgSend) : hope to draw interest from Rococoa developers

(also see GoogleSummerOfCode for projects on which we'd love to receive help, from students or passionate individuals)

pass and return structs by value
C++ templates typedefs : typedef WImageC<uchar, 1> WImage1_b; (JNAerator should create WImage1_b with the correct constructor).
COM JNAeration : need to parse __declspec(uuid("xxx"))
some amount of built-in support for STL types (strings and vector at least, in debug/release mode, for GNU's STL, STLPort and MS VC++9's STL)
Full MFC Runtime (with annotations-based message map creation)
Mono/CLR interop (see my previous hack)
MS/.NET interop
reverse-engineering helper (struct sizes guesses can be eased up a bit, and there's already a good demangler)

On Windows :

On MacOS X :

On other Unix platforms :

Why limiting the scope of this project so early ?