What are Native methods?

What are Native methods?

Native methods are the methods implemented in other language like C. These methods can be used in Java classes using JNI API.

A native method is a method which is implemented in a non-java language that is targeted for a single machine type. Native methods can pass or return Java objects. To implement the native method, the keyword native is used. The implementation is in another language such as C or C++.

To compile the program which has native method, the following is used:

javac -jni         Premium