ICU4JNI: International Components for Unicode for Java Native Interface
ICU4JNI 2.8 ReadMe

Version: 2003-Jun-11
Copyright © 1997-2003 International Business Machines Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.
Author: Ram Viswanadha

Contents

• Introduction
• License Information
• System Requirements
• Installation

Introduction

ICU4JNI contains Java Native Interface wrappers for ICU4C's character set conversion and collation libraries.
These wrappers provide increased performace of conversion and collation, and complete compatibility with ICU4C.

License Information

The ICU projects (ICU4C and ICU4J) have changed their licenses from the IPL (IBM Public License) to the X license. The X license is a non-viral and recommended free software license that is compatible with the GNU GPL license. This is effective starting with release 1.8.1 of ICU4C and release 1.3.1 of ICU4J. All previous ICU releases will continue to utilize the IPL. New ICU releases will adopt the X license. The users of previous releases of ICU will need to accept the terms and conditions of the X license in order to adopt the new ICU releases. The main effect of the change is to provide GPL compatibility. The X license is listed as GPL compatible, see the gnu page at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses Please see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu4j/~checkout~/icu4j/license.html for text of the license and the Project FAQ.

System Requirements

 * JDK1.3 or above with most recent release updates.
 * ICU4C built and installed

Tested Environments

Installation

UNIX

1. Download and install ICU4C from http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu
2. Ensure that ICU libraries are available in system's dynamic library search path.
3. Make sure that 'icu-config' is in the system's executable search path defined by PATH environment variable
   
4. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable, e.g.:
      export JAVA_HOME=/java/jdk1.3
5. Run configure with prefix and jdk options, ./configure --<enable/disable>-jdk14, e.g.:
      ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ --enable-jdk14
6. Run make check to build and run tests

•  Building ICU4JNI on Solaris need libC.so and libc.so to be present in the search path defined by LD_LIBRARY_PATH  environment variable. libC.so should be a symbolic link to libC.so.5
• Building ICU4JNI on AIX, Solaris 64bit  requires ICU to be built with --disable-64bit-libraries configure option enabled.
  

Win32

Make is configured to build with or without JDK 1.4

1. Download and install ICU4C from http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu
2. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable or pass JAVAPATH on the command line, e.g.:
      set JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk1.3
3. Ensure that the <icu_dir>\bin directory is in your path.
4. Ensure that your environment is set right for the C compilation. For Microsoft C compilers, ensure that  vcvars32.bat  has been ran to set the environment variables.
5. Run nmake with the supplied win32 makefile. You can set the configuration option by defining CFG. Also, if ICU_DATA is not set, you can provide the path to the ICU bin directory by defining ICUBIN.
• To set configuration options define CFG to either Debug or Release, default is Debug
• If ICU_DATA is not set, define ICUBIN=<icu>/bin

For example:
   nmake /f makefile-win32 CFG="Debug" ICUBIN="c:\icu\bin"

For building with JDK 1.4 type the following command

                         nmake /f makefile-win32 CFG="Debug" ICUBIN="<location of ICU>\icu\bin" JDK14="TRUE" JAVAPATH="<location of JDK>\bin"

For building with JDK1.3 type the following command

                        nmake /f makefile-win32 CFG="Debug" ICUBIN="<location of ICU>\bin" JDK14="FALSE" JAVAPATH="<location of JDK>\bin"

6. The files are built in the <jniroot>/build directory. The test is com.ibm.icu4jni.test.TestAll. You must define the library path to point to the jni library, and set the classpath to point to the icu4jni class files. E.g.:
      java -Djava.library.path=c:\icu4jni\build\lib -classpath ;c:\icu4jni\build\classes; com.ibm.icu4jni.test.TestAll
   Alternatively, you can also run the test by making the 'check' target, e.g.:
      <full nmake command as described above> CHECK

For Integrating into JVM only

 * Place the java source files in $(TARGETDIR)/com,i.e, <jdksource>/com
 * Add the following lines to <jdk>/make/mkinclude/java_java.jmk
  $(TARGDIR)com/ibm/icu4jni/ICUJNIInterface.java \
  $(TARGDIR)com/ibm/icu4jni/CharToByteConverterICU.java \
  $(TARGDIR)com/ibm/icu4jni/ByteToCharConverterICU.java \
  # the files below are test classes
  $(TARGDIR)com/ibm/icu4jni/ByteToCharGB18030.java \
  $(TARGDIR)com/ibm/icu4jni/CharToByteGB18030.java \
 * The JNI wrappers work under the assumption that ICU4C is available and installed on the target platform.
 * For adding additional codepages open CharacterEncoding.java in <jdksource>/sun/io directory and add the
   aliases to the converter
  for eg:
  For GB18030 support you add:
  aliasTable.put( "gb18030" , "GB18030");
  aliasTable.put( "gb-18030", "GB18030");
  aliasTable.put( "gb_18030", "GB18030");
  aliasTable.put( "GB-18030", "GB18030");
 * Compile JNI wrapper code into dll/so using a C compiler
 * Package the ICUJNIInterface.dll <jdkbuild>/<platform>/bin directory
 * Rebuild the JDK source