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Introduction
This article outlines the Microsoft Raw Native Interface (RNI) for implementing native code with the Microsoft virtual machine (Microsoft VM). The goal of RNI was to allow as much code as possible to be re-used between the various available virtual machines (VMs) and hence it mirrors much of the features (both good and bad) of the original JDK. Typically, the only changes have been to better support the VM's internal object model (for speed) and to allow non-conservative garbage collection (to reduce the working set).
