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Subject: RE: JCA problems and questions
From: "Kasemir, Kay" <[email protected]>
To: Jack Smith <[email protected]>, Mark Rivers <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:00:36 -0400
Hi:

I agree that it's confusing. Here's my understanding:

JCA is the Java library for interacting with Channel Access.
It provides
1) The API for creating a channel, handling the connection, adding a subscription, receiving values, ...
2) An actual implementation for the API, based on invoking the C/C++ Channel Access client library from EPICS 'base' via JNI, the Java native interface.

Any Java program that wants to interact with Channel Access needs part 1) of JCA. It's a bit like the "include" file of a C/C++ program.
To actually work, you used to also need 2), which means: It's no longer pure Java. You must have the JNI library of JCA that was compiled for your operating system.

CAJ replaces part 2) of JCA with a pure Java implementation that works for everybody.


To me,
"JCA with JNI interface to Channel Access"
and
"JCA with CAJ"
are the two basic alternatives that you have.
Maybe there could be a better name for these.

Thanks,
-Kay



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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Smith [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 4:18 PM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: JCA problems and questions

Hi,

I always get confused and mess up the names of caj and jca. Could anyone provide a simple explanation of what they stand for and what are their differences so that jca/caj can be easily remembered, not easily messed up. Can someone rename them? Thanks,



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