JAZ IS A
JAVA CLASS THAT HAS METHODS CORRESPONDING TO THE C FUNTIONS OF THE C-API
SUPPLIED BY IBM. THIS
CLASS ENABLES YOU TO MANAGE YOUR ZISC CARD ON A PC WITH YOUR JAVA PROGRAMS
RUNNING ON JVM(JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE). HOW
DOES JAZ.CLASS BEHAVE? IT USES A NATIVE-METHODS INTERFACE WITH THE C-API
FUNCTIONS SUPPLIED BY IBM AS FOLLOW:
JAZ.CLASS
====> NATIVE CODE INTERFACE ====> C-API
JAZAPI.DLL
IN OREDER
TO USE JAZ, YOU NEED TO HAVE THE FOLLOWING HW/SW:
ZISC CARD (if using JAZAPI.DLL)
JDK (by SUN)
JAZ.CLASS
JAZAPI.DLL(or ZISC-EMULATION DLL)
ZAPI95.DLL (IBM) (if using JAZAPI.DLL)
JAZAPI.DLL
IMPLEMENTS THE "NATIVE CODE LAYER" DEFINED IN JAZ.CLASS CALLING FUNCTIONS
ON THE ZAPI95.DLL (IBM). JAZAPI.DLL CAN BE SUBSTITUTED BY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING
ZISC-CARD EMULATION DLL:
JAZEM.DLL
1 ZISC
PCI-CARD (684 NEURONS)
JAZEMLN.DLL
10 ZISC
PCI-CARDS CONNECTED AS ONE LARGE NETWORK (6840 NEURONS)