On 7/4/2020 1:20 PM,
vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
It seems mind boggling that a "machine independent: java would use DLL.
Java is machine-independent (in some sense of the phrase). That
implies there are machine-specific things Java cannot do. When an
application wants to do something machine-specific that is beyond Java's
power, it can write the machine-specific bits in another language (often
C++ or C), put those bits in a library, and tell the Java code how to
find and call them. The whole Java-works-with-a-foreigner framework is
called the "Java Native Interface," or JNI.
It seems the application you are struggling with is written in a
mixture of Java and something else, and that the "something else"
pieces reside in a library.
What is .so?
A "shared object," Unix' moral equivalent of a Windows DLL.
Was it exclusive to RDKIT or is it a Java thing?
Sorry; I have no idea. Is the available documentation helpful?
Look for a "how to install" or "system prerequisites" section, or
something of that kind.
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