JNI method not invoked on centos7

Question

I have a Java code ServiceTest.java that invokes JNI code buildCache() to build the cache. This codes compiled and exceuted correctly on Ubuntu; however, on centos I compiled and exceuted and got this error.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.test.app.ServiceTest.buildCache()V
    at com.test.app.ServiceTest.buildCache(Native Method)
    at com.test.app.ServiceTest.<init>(ServiceTest.java:15)
    at com.test.app.ServiceTest.main(ServiceTest.java:47)

Looks like, it was able to load the so file, but it is not able to invoke the method.

ServiceTest.java

public class ServiceTest{


static {
        System.loadLibrary("cacheService");
    }

 public ServiceTest() {
        buildCache();
    }

 private native void buildCache();
}

libcacheService.so is placed in /usr/local/lib64. I have gcc 9 and jdk 1.8 and have set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ and export $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Any idea on how to debug?

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              ******Adding below simple testcode****** 

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1.

public class Test{


    static {
     System.loadLibrary("greet");
    }

    Test(){
    }

    public static void main(String...s){
      Test t = new Test();
      System.out.println(t.greetings());
    }
    private native String greetings();
}

2. javah Test -> Test.h

/* DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - it is machine generated */
#include <jni.h> /* Header for class Test */

#ifndef _Included_Test
#define _Included_Test
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/*
 * Class:     Test
 * Method:    greetings
 * Signature: ()Ljava/lang/String;
 */
JNIEXPORT jstring JNICALL Java_Test_greetings
(JNIEnv *, jobject);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif

3. Greetings.cpp

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <jni.h>
#include "Test.h"
using namespace std;

class Test{

JNIEXPORT jstring JNICALL Java_Test_greetings(JNIEnv *env, jobject thisObject){
   jstring result = env->NewStringUTF("hi from JNI"); 
   return result;
 }  

};

4. g++ --std=c++17 -g -I$JAVA_HOME/include -I$JAVA_HOME/include/linux -fPIC -shared -o greetings.so Greetings.cpp

5. $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -Djava.library.path=/lib64 Test

6. again same issue

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Test.greetings()Ljava/lang/String; at Test.greetings(Native Method) at Test.main(Test.java:13)

With same GCC 9 and jdk 1.8

Answer 1

Your Greetings.cpp should not include class Test:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <jni.h>
#include "Test.h"
using namespace std;

JNIEXPORT jstring JNICALL Java_Test_greetings(JNIEnv *env, jobject thisObject){
   jstring result = env->NewStringUTF("hi from JNI"); 
   return result;
 }  

Then, the Java statement System.loadLibrary("greet"); expects to find a libgreet.so in its java.library.path, so compile it as follows:

g++ --std=c++17 -g -I$JAVA_HOME/include -I$JAVA_HOME/include/linux -fPIC -shared -o libgreet.so Greetings.cpp

Next, verify that the symbol is named exactly like the function, ie nm libgreet.so | grep Java_Test_greetings should produce output like the following:

0000000000000f20 T _Java_Test_greetings

Finally, run your Java program with the correct java.library.path.