Java Native Interface (JNI) ... to generate a header file to facilitate calling C/C++ programs from Java code. However, there is hardly any mention of Java and assembly language code working together.

JNI was introduced in JDK 1.1, which dates back to February 1997, as the primary means for interoperating between Java code and native code, typically written in C.

I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using something like JNA. I'm wanting to keep this under a linux environment.

I would like to have some JNI code malloc a block of memory and pass it back to my Java code (in the form of a jlong), so that future calls to other JNI functions can pass this pointer along for ...