What is the 'correct' way to store a native pointer inside a Java object?

Question

What is the \'correct\' way to store a native pointer inside a Java object?

I could treat the pointer as a Java int, if I happen to know that native poi

Answer 1

I assume that this is a pointer returned from some JNI code and my advice would be just dont do it :)

Ideally the JNI code should pass you back some sort of logical reference to the resource and not an actual pointer ?

As to your question there is nothing that comes to mind about a cleaner way to store the pointer - if you know what you have then use either the int or long or byte[] as required.