What is a native method?
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What is a native method?
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A native method is one for which the body of the method is defined elsewhere, entirely outside the Java Virtual Machine, in a library. Only methods can be declared as native. A native code is written in a non-Java language, typically C or C++, and compiled for a single target machine type.
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