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Re: Advice sought

At 10:04 AM -0500 7/7/06, Michael Hall wrote: 
On Jul 6, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Steve W. Jackson wrote:

Unless I misunderstood something I read recently, Apple won't be extending the Cocoa framework support in Java once Leopard is released.

My understanding may not be exact either but I think this is sort of off. The java VM is based on the Cocoa and related frameworks and will continue to be so indefinitely. Native JNI API's based on Cocoa would certainly be considered supported although there are potential problems with Technical Note documentation to assist in dealing with those. Cocoa Java is not supported as an official API effective now, it is for educational usage only. Although no fixed date for it not shipping has been set it was never added to the default classpath to begin with.


Mike Hall        mikehall at spacestar dot net
http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall
http://sourceforge.net/projects/macnative

Since I'm only now getting serious about Java on the Mac, I won't claim any sort of serious understanding of the framework issue. I don't even recall exactly where I came across whatever that exact mention was. I know that the Java VM is itself a framework, but beyond that I'm largely still clueless in that area. I'd just like to be reasonably certain that I can write "mostly Java" code for the Mac that won't become obsolete with a new OS X release -- isn't that what we all want to do? :-)

Thanks,
= Steve =
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Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama
http://homepage.mac.com/stevejackson/
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