difference between com.sun.jna and net.java.dev.jna?

Question

I'm looking through the central maven repository and seeing a net.java.dev.jna and a com.sun.jna groupId for JNA. The github for JNA, using the com.sun.jna path as the directories in their source code, indicates that 4.1 has been pushed into the repository as part of a comment, but I'm seeing net.java.dev.jna at 4.1 and com.sun.jna at 3.0.

Obviously, I want to use JNA, but am baffled. What's going on with this package?

Answer 1

The correct 4.1 version to use is net.java.dev.jna:

<dependency>
    <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
    <artifactId>jna</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.0</version>
</dependency>

The package name still seems to be com.sun.jna, but if you look in the POM file, the Maven coordinates have become net.java.dev.jna:jna.

They seem to have been that way for quite a long time, based on the MVN respository results.