JNI query

[venkatakrishnan.kan@xxxxxxxxx (K. P. Venkatakrishnan)]

Hello everyone,
	I have a class which has two string values as data members and two
functions corresponding to each to get their values.


class ValPair{
                String vp_name;
                String vp_value;
                public ValPair(String name, String value){

                        vp_name = name;
                        vp_value = value;
                }
                public String getName(){
                        return vp_name;
                }
                public String getValue(){
                        return vp_value;
                }
}

	I want to create an array of this type, initialize it using elements of
a structure obtained from my C code(one object shall have the contents
of one structure) and give this array of objects to my Java program. I
proceeded in the following manner.

typedef struct sir_packet_count{
        struct sir_packet_count *next;
        char                    name[256];
        long                    pkt_count;
}SIR_PACKET_COUNT;

  (JNIEnv *env, jobject obj){
        /* returns an array of object type NameValuePair */

        SIR_PACKET_COUNTS       sirPktCount;
        /*SIR_PACKET_COUNTS*    tempsirPktCount;*/
        jint                    result = 0;
        int                     numOfPacketCounts;
        int                     numOfPackets;
        jobjectArray            pktInfo;
        int                     tempCount;
        int                     i;
        jmethodID               mid;
        jstring                 str;

        numOfPacketCounts = 0;
        numOfPackets = 0;
        if((sirPktCount =
(SIR_PACKET_COUNT*)malloc(sizeof(SIR_PACKET_COUNT))) == NULL){
                result = 0;
        }
        else{
                &sirPktCount = getPacketCounts(); /* getPacketCounts()
is a C function that returns a pointer to structure of type 						  
SIR_NAS_RADIUS_CFG*/
                while(&sirPktCount != NULL){
                        numOfPacketCounts++;
                        &sirPktCount = (&sirPktCount)->next;
                }
                							
       		pktInfo =
(jobjectArray)((*env)->NewObjectArray(numOfPacketCounts,
(*env)->FindClass(env, "ValPair"),NULL));
                for(i = 0; i < numOfPacketCounts; i++){
                        cls = (*env)->GetObjectArrayElement(env,
pktInfo, i);
                        mid = (*env)->GetMethodID(cls, "ValPair",
"(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V"); /* getting the constructor
id */
                        str = (*env)->NewStringUTF(env,
&sirPktCount->name);
                        /* 
				  Initialize each of pktInfo array elements with a string (name) and
another string (value of pkt_counts)
			*/	 
                        &sirPktCount = (&sirPktCount)->next;
                }
	}

}
Questions:
1)	What does NewObjectArray do ? Does it do the job of a constructor ?
If so, how can I pass the parameters for the constructor.
2)	I have assumed in the above lines that the constructor can be called
like a method. Is that so correct ? I am doing so, because I don't know
how to pass the variables (required for the constructor) in
NewObjectArray call.
3)	How can I convert the "long pkt_count" of the structure to a String ?
4)	Its a wild guess though, but does "CallMethod" correspond to the
constructor ?

Please help me out,
Awaiting an early responses from the JNI buffs,
Venkat.

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