Java multi threading

[Steve]

Hi,
I am not a Java programmer and would like some help with the following
questions.

Can Java connect to an external API which is provided as a single Dynamic
Linked Library (c library)?

Is Java a multi threading language?

The following information was obtained from the API kit I would like to
connect to. This documented was written about 3 years ago and presumably
there have been significant advances in Java since then, which may explain
its omission.

"you will need to write your application in a language that supports multi
threading such as c,c++, visual basic v6. In our experience some languages
cannot cope with the multi threading necessity".

Thank you.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

Hi,
I am not a Java programmer and would like some help with the following
questions. ....
Is Java a multi threading language?
Yes.

The following information was obtained from the API kit I would like to
connect to. This documented was written about 3 years ago and presumably
there have been significant advances in Java since then, which may explain
its omission.

"you will need to write your application in a language that supports multi
threading such as c,c++, visual basic v6. In our experience some languages
cannot cope with the multi threading necessity".

No, Java has _always_ been multi-threaded, there
were no 'early versions' that were not.

Maybe the omission of Java was more due to the authors..
Who wrote the API kit?

 

[Steve]

Thanks for the reply Andrew.
The API was written by Patsystems.They have developed a trading application
for routing orders to futures exchanges throughout the world.
I guess the next step is to contact them. I just wanted to make sure that
Java had a multithreading capability.

Steve

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

Can Java connect to an external API which is provided as a single Dynamic
Linked Library (c library)?

Not directly. You'd need to write wrappers in e.g. C that confirms to the Java Native
Interface (to be called from Java) and forwards the calls to your target API.