Subject:	Only when unavoidable!
	Date:	2005-11-07 11:03:47
	From:	cajo
Fortunately, that happens only very rarely. Typically, it is to drive some specialised data acquisition card, or for some exotic device control hardware. I've even gone so far as to implement TCP stacks on embedded control devices, just so that I could java.io.Socket instead of JNI.