Disadvantages of using Java Native Interface

Question

I can not get these two disadvantages of using JNI. I want to know more about them:

• Difficult to debug runtime error in native code

• Errors i

Answer 1

You'll lose one of the advantages of using Java, your application is not platform independent anymore, and many other problems implied from that: maybe you'll be supporting DLLs for Windows and .so files for Linux, each one of them with their own compiler, different debugging tools, different dependencies and maybe different bugs, more complexity for your build process, more code to test, etc.