Hybrid PolyLingual Object Model: An Efficient and Seamless Integration of Java and Native Components on the Dalvik Virtual Machine
JNI in the Android platform is often observed with low efficiency and high coding complexity. Although many researchers have investigated the JNI mechanism, few of them solve the efficiency and the complexity problems of JNI in the Android platform simultaneously. In this paper, a hybrid polylingual...
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| description | JNI in the Android platform is often observed with low efficiency and high coding complexity. Although many researchers have investigated the JNI mechanism, few of them solve the efficiency and the complexity problems of JNI in the Android platform simultaneously. In this paper, a hybrid polylingual object (HPO) model is proposed to allow a CAR object being accessed as a Java object and as vice in the Dalvik virtual machine. It is an acceptable substitute for JNI to reuse the CAR-compliant components in Android applications in a seamless and efficient way. The metadata injection mechanism is designed to support the automatic mapping and reflection between CAR objects and Java objects. A prototype virtual machine, called HPO-Dalvik, is implemented by extending the Dalvik virtual machine to support the HPO model. Lifespan management, garbage collection, and data type transformation of HPO objects are also handled in the HPO-Dalvik virtual machine automatically. The experimental result shows that the HPO model outweighs the standard JNI in lower overhead on native side, better executing performance with no JNI bridging code being demanded. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-514d30b826b4444684c49858ce69e9712025-02-03T06:14:00ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal2356-61401537-744X2014-01-01201410.1155/2014/785434785434Hybrid PolyLingual Object Model: An Efficient and Seamless Integration of Java and Native Components on the Dalvik Virtual MachineYukun Huang0Rong Chen1Jingbo Wei2Xilong Pei3Jing Cao4Prem Prakash Jayaraman5Rajiv Ranjan6Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, ChinaTongji University, Shanghai 200092, ChinaAcademy of Space Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, ChinaTongji University, Shanghai 200092, ChinaShanghai Kortide Century Technology, Shanghai 201203, ChinaCSIRO, Canberra, ACT 2601, AustraliaCSIRO, Canberra, ACT 2601, AustraliaJNI in the Android platform is often observed with low efficiency and high coding complexity. Although many researchers have investigated the JNI mechanism, few of them solve the efficiency and the complexity problems of JNI in the Android platform simultaneously. In this paper, a hybrid polylingual object (HPO) model is proposed to allow a CAR object being accessed as a Java object and as vice in the Dalvik virtual machine. It is an acceptable substitute for JNI to reuse the CAR-compliant components in Android applications in a seamless and efficient way. The metadata injection mechanism is designed to support the automatic mapping and reflection between CAR objects and Java objects. A prototype virtual machine, called HPO-Dalvik, is implemented by extending the Dalvik virtual machine to support the HPO model. Lifespan management, garbage collection, and data type transformation of HPO objects are also handled in the HPO-Dalvik virtual machine automatically. The experimental result shows that the HPO model outweighs the standard JNI in lower overhead on native side, better executing performance with no JNI bridging code being demanded.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/785434 |
| spellingShingle | Yukun Huang Rong Chen Jingbo Wei Xilong Pei Jing Cao Prem Prakash Jayaraman Rajiv Ranjan Hybrid PolyLingual Object Model: An Efficient and Seamless Integration of Java and Native Components on the Dalvik Virtual Machine The Scientific World Journal |
| title | Hybrid PolyLingual Object Model: An Efficient and Seamless Integration of Java and Native Components on the Dalvik Virtual Machine |
| title_full | Hybrid PolyLingual Object Model: An Efficient and Seamless Integration of Java and Native Components on the Dalvik Virtual Machine |
| title_fullStr | Hybrid PolyLingual Object Model: An Efficient and Seamless Integration of Java and Native Components on the Dalvik Virtual Machine |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hybrid PolyLingual Object Model: An Efficient and Seamless Integration of Java and Native Components on the Dalvik Virtual Machine |
| title_short | Hybrid PolyLingual Object Model: An Efficient and Seamless Integration of Java and Native Components on the Dalvik Virtual Machine |
| title_sort | hybrid polylingual object model an efficient and seamless integration of java and native components on the dalvik virtual machine |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/785434 |
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