Hello there,

I have a problem and I don't know if the JNA API can help or not. Basically what I would like to do, is to set a timeout on a method call.

In fact I have my library declaring some methods stored in the loaded DLL, and all is working just fine. But one method I'm calling can last up to many seconds. The problem is that I don't want this method to get stuck for a long time, stopping the execution of the rest of the java program.

I tried to make the call in a separate Thread but since it's only one method call (one line of code) and not a loop that will be executed many times, I can't really stop the Thread when the run method exceed the time I've fixed.

Notice that I can't touch to the DLL source code, it's not mine.

I searched through the JNA API but I did not find what i'm searching for (if there is).

If anybody can help me, it would be very nice :-).

Thanks in advance !