What is means for pyjnius, JEP 472: Prepare to Restrict the Use of JNI

[ismailsimsek]

There is JEP 472: Prepare to Restrict the Use of JNI anounced.

What this means for pyjnius? will it mean pyjnius will not be usable in the future? when JNI is disabled?

[cmacdonald]

I think that as jnius controls the startup of the JVM, we can pass the flag --enable-native-access.

[cmacdonald]

I gave a shot of our pyjnius based platform under a pre-release of JDK 24. I got two warnings, neither of which were related to Jnius. (One was System.loadLibrary() being called by a Java dependency; another was Guava calling sun.misc.Unsafe.)

So, from that quick scan, it doesnt seem that JEP 472 will be a problem. Once JDK24 has been released, around April, we can add it to the CI testing.