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The system is called JNR - Java Native Runtime - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jvmls2013nutter-20135.... It uses libffi, which I guess the final call is made to via JNI.

Charlie Nutter gave a great talk covering this and a lot of additional new JVM features here:

Edit: The JNR stuff is covered around 42 minutes in.