Java JNI Bridge: A Framework for Mixed Native ISA Execution

Authors:
Miaobo Chen;Shalom Goldenberg;Suresh Srinivas;Valery Ushakov;Young Wang;Qi Zhang;Eric Lin;Yoav Zach
Affiliations:
Intel Corporation;Intel Corporation;Intel Corporation;Intel Corporation;Intel Corporation;Intel Corporation;Intel Corporation;Intel Corporation
Venue:
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Managed Runtime Environments (MRTEs) such as the Java platform promise a cross platform "Write Once, Deploy Anywhere" mechanism. However, MRTE applications that contain native method calls are not seamlessly portable across platforms. In this paper, we describe a new approach to transparently run Java applications containing native method calls to one ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) on a different ISA's Java platform. This approach operates within the same operating system process that executes the application but with the support of a dynamic translator. This paper describes the technical challenges and solutions of such an in-process implementation within a production Java Virtual Machine (JVM). These include interfacing the JVM with a dynamic translator to support native calls to a different ISA, pursuing a JVM-independent implementation, enhancing the dynamic translator to support shared libraries in addition to executables, marshalling arguments across ISA boundaries, and providing full support for all Java features such as multi-threading. The paper presents performance results for an end-user application, showing our approach to be 2-3 times faster than other approaches.