Talk:Java Native Interface

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[edit] noncompliant - Article is a tutorial, violates WP:NOT

This 'article' is a tutorial on the use of JNI. WP:NOT prohibits tutorials:

Instruction manuals - while Wikipedia has descriptions of people, places, and things, Wikipedia articles should not include instruction - advice ( legal, medical, or otherwise), suggestions, or contain "how-to"s. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, video game guides, and recipes.

(my emphasis).

Suggest reverting to 5 December 2005 edit by 212.85.24.83, which is the most recent edit before the tutorial content was added. LVC 12:16, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

One week has passed with no challenge on this - reverting. LVC 03:40, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

You removed too much useful information. I think reverting was a bad idea. It was probably better to just remove the walkthrought --Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho 19:03, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

As writer of the expansion of the article (stub), I was not aware of this Wikipedia policy at the time I wrote it. I have written it this way because JNI is hard to understand, even for advanced programmers who have never done something like this before. By providing an example, the programmer have a concrete example to work with. There is a ton of useful information on that article that I think will help others master JNI. I will rewrite the article that will not follow a sort of a "tutorial" style format, I will instead just provide a straight-up example, explains the inner mechanisms and provide a link to a proper tutorial if the reader needs to be.

I have gotten rid of the walkthrough. I will see if I can write a more appropriate example that will conform to Wikipedia standards. In the meantime I have provided a link to CodeProject.com and Java.sun.com discussing how JNI is used.