All, I've been working in AprLifecycleListener to add FIPS support. I need to make an additional native method call in initializeSSL and I'm wondering why all of the native methods are called using reflection instead of direct method calls.
The SSL class, for instance, and the AprLifecycleListener are both in the Tomcat source tree and so they should always be in sync. The only reason I can think of is that native methods can throw any exception they want even if they are not declared in the Java stub, and the InvocationTargetException that wraps any exception through a reflective call will help avoid any problems. Is that it? Is that the reason for the reflective calls? If not, is there another reason? If there's no good reason, then all the reflective-call clutter should be removed. Thanks, -chris
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