New candidate JEP: 389: Foreign Linker API (Incubator)


Introduce an API that offers safe, strongly-typed, pure-Java access to native code. This API, together with the Foreign-Memory API (JEP 383), will provide access to native data and native functions in a way that is safer, easier to use, and more performant than the Java Native Interface (JNI)...

More at https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/389