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While Java is one of the most in-demand and widely used programming languages in the world, it is not without its detractors. Java is not a particularly beginner-friendly language and it is rife with ...

Well, you have NULL, or you could return 0. If you're using it to assign a class, then if you return either 0 or NULL, then the class would be NULL.

If you didn’t know better, you might believe that Sun Microsystems had designed the JNI (Java Native Interface) API with the goal of discouraging Java developers ...