Native method in local class

Question

Hi there,
this is a repost of my question but now in the right forum.
I have a problem with a native method of a local class that hides a member class:
public class SomeClass
     class MemberClass
          public native void bla();
          public void out()
               System.out.println("A");
     public void foo()
          class MemberClass
               public native void bla();
               public void out()
                    System.out.println("B");
          MemberClass myClass = new MemberClass();
          myClass.out();
     public static void main(String[] args)
          SomeClass someClass = new SomeClass();
          someClass.foo();
}The class MemberClass exist in two different ways. Every class has it's own out() method. The local class just hides the member class. Now I want to implement the native methods bla() of the two classes.
If I call
javac SomeClass.hI get
SomeClass.class
SomeClass$MemberClass.class
SomeClass$1MemberClass.classwhich makes sense to me. We have one class file for the member class and one for the local class.
If I use
javah SomeClassthen I get
JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_SomeClass_00024MemberClass_bla(JNIEnv *, jobject);in the header file for the member class. No header file for the local class was created.
Therefore I call
javah SomeClass$1MemberClassand I get another header file which is for the local class. But this header file declares the same native method:
JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_SomeClass_00024MemberClass_bla(JNIEnv *, jobject);This is ambiguous... If I would implement the native method, then I couldn't even say for which one of the native methods it will be used. Maybe for both.. which wouldn't make any sense too.
What is wrong here?
Thank you for your thoughts :-)

Answer 1

Interesting...From the JLS under "fully qualified name"
[http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/names.html#71701]
"Every package, top level class, top level interface, and primitive type has a fully qualified name."
From the javah docs
javah [ options ] fully-qualified-classname
And note this under the JNI spec for "FindClass"
[http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jni/spec/functions.html#wp16027]
"The name argument is a fully-qualified class name or an array type signature "
Does that mean that you can't use JNI to access a local class? Seems like I have seen posts that said that was possible.