Hello all

I'm wrapping a third party library that has some global structures that could potentially get corrupted if more than one thread calls into the native code at any given time.

However, due to the nature of my problem, I foresee that I might have more than one Java thread that might be calling into this library.

I think I want to synchronize access to the library. One option would be to write all my code as:

synchronized (MyLib.INSTANCE) { MyLib.INSTANCE.foo(); }

but this seems rather repetitive and error prone, so I'm hoping JNA could help out.

In general, it seems like it might be useful to have a mechanism to be able to register "functors" to be invoked just before and just after JNA calls the native library. One could configure this similarly to the type and function mappers.

If such a mechanism existed (or exists?), I could register a "lock" and a "unlock" functor to manage a Lock to synchronize access to the native library.

Any thoughts?

Regards,

Albert