diff --git a/java/org/servalproject/servald/AbstractJniResults.java b/java/org/servalproject/servald/AbstractJniResults.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cfe10159
--- /dev/null
+++ b/java/org/servalproject/servald/AbstractJniResults.java
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package org.servalproject.servald;
+
+public abstract class AbstractJniResults implements IJniResults {
+
+	@Override
+	public void startResultSet(int columns) {
+		putBlob(Integer.toString(columns).getBytes());
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void setColumnName(int i, String name) {
+		putBlob(name.getBytes());
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void putString(String value) {
+		putBlob((value != null) ? value.getBytes() : null);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public abstract void putBlob(byte[] value);
+
+	@Override
+	public void putLong(long value) {
+		putBlob(Long.toString(value).getBytes());
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void putDouble(double value) {
+		putBlob(Double.toString(value).getBytes());
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void totalRowCount(int rows) {
+
+	}
+}
diff --git a/java/org/servalproject/servald/IJniResults.java b/java/org/servalproject/servald/IJniResults.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..21b66fab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/java/org/servalproject/servald/IJniResults.java
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+package org.servalproject.servald;
+
+public interface IJniResults {
+	public void startResultSet(int columns);
+	public void setColumnName(int column, String name);
+	public void putString(String value);
+	public void putBlob(byte[] value);
+	public void putLong(long value);
+	public void putDouble(double value);
+	public void totalRowCount(int rows);
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/java/org/servalproject/servald/JniResultsList.java b/java/org/servalproject/servald/JniResultsList.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ba934c76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/java/org/servalproject/servald/JniResultsList.java
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package org.servalproject.servald;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+public class JniResultsList extends AbstractJniResults implements IJniResults {
+	final List<byte[]> list;
+	private byte[] empty = new byte[0];
+	JniResultsList(List<byte[]> list) {
+		this.list = list;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void putBlob(byte[] value) {
+		list.add(value == null ? empty : value);
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/java/org/servalproject/servald/ServalD.java b/java/org/servalproject/servald/ServalD.java
index 70f5484c..6e77c47c 100644
--- a/java/org/servalproject/servald/ServalD.java
+++ b/java/org/servalproject/servald/ServalD.java
@@ -28,17 +28,20 @@ class ServalD
 	int status;
 	List<byte[]> outv;
 
-	public ServalD()
+	static
 	{
+		String property = System.getProperty("java.library.path");
+		System.err.println("Attempting to load libservald.so from "+property);
 		System.loadLibrary("servald");
 	}
 
-	public native int rawCommand(List<byte[]> outv, String... args);
+	private static native int rawCommand(IJniResults outv, String[] args);
 
 	public void command(String... args)
 	{
 		this.outv = new LinkedList<byte[]>();
-		this.status = this.rawCommand(this.outv, args);
+		IJniResults results = new JniResultsList(outv);
+		this.status = this.rawCommand(results, args);
 	}
 
 	public static void main(String[] args)
diff --git a/java/org/servalproject/servald/ServalDTests.java b/java/org/servalproject/servald/ServalDTests.java
index 9574cc32..f6ac6f4b 100644
--- a/java/org/servalproject/servald/ServalDTests.java
+++ b/java/org/servalproject/servald/ServalDTests.java
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ class ServalDTests
 	public static void main(String[] args)
 	{
 		try {
-			Class<?> cls = new Object() { }.getClass().getEnclosingClass();
-			Method m = cls.getMethod(args[0], String[].class);
+			Method m = ServalDTests.class.getMethod(args[0], String[].class);
 			m.invoke(null, (Object) Arrays.copyOfRange(args, 1, args.length));
 		}
 		catch (Exception e) {
diff --git a/tests/jni b/tests/jni
index f23309db..96e824c3 100755
--- a/tests/jni
+++ b/tests/jni
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ compile_java_classes() {
    mkdir classes
    assert $JAVAC -Xlint:unchecked -d classes "$servald_source_root"/java/org/servalproject/servald/*.java
    assert [ -r classes/org/servalproject/servald/ServalD.class ]
+   assert [ -r classes/org/servalproject/servald/IJniResults.class ]
    assert [ -r classes/org/servalproject/servald/ServalDTests.class ]
 }
 
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ assert_echo_works() {
 
 doc_Echo="Serval JNI echo Hello world"
 test_Echo() {
-   executeOk java -classpath "$PWD/classes" org.servalproject.servald.ServalD echo -e 'Hello,\ttab' 'world\0!'
+   executeOk java "-Djava.library.path=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" -classpath "$PWD/classes" org.servalproject.servald.ServalD echo -e 'Hello,\ttab' 'world\0!'
    assertStdoutIs -e 'Hello,\ttab\nworld\0!\n'
 }
 
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ test_Delim() {
 
 doc_Repeat="Serval JNI repeated calls in same process"
 test_Repeat() {
-   executeOk java -classpath "$PWD/classes" org.servalproject.servald.ServalDTests repeat 50 echo 'Hello,' 'world!'
+   executeOk java "-Djava.library.path=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" -classpath "$PWD/classes" org.servalproject.servald.ServalDTests repeat 50 echo 'Hello,' 'world!'
    assertStdoutLineCount '==' 50
    assertStdoutGrep --matches=50 '^0:Hello,:world!$'
 }