------_ extPart_001_01C4CCE9.C10980E9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset s-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I just read in the July 2004 Java Developers Journal about Javolution http://javolution.org/ (nee JADE), which contains the following feature: # Using the Javolution Struct and Union base classes, your code can directly share information with C/C++ native applications. So that could be an alternative for your Java side of the whole thing. Al ------_ extPart_001_01C4CCE9.C10980E9--