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- Used when you need to manipulate some hardware directly, or execute code not written in Java.
- Portability and safety of the code are lost.
- Implemented using an API provided by the people who wrote the virtual machine on the platform where the code will run.
- The standard API for C programmers is called Java Native Interface (JNI).
- Other API's are being defined for other languages.
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