Apple has announced that there will be no new Java-based Cocoa API
shims after Mac OS X 10.4, though I'm not sure what the reasoning
behind that was, but you have access to a lot of Cocoa APIs from Java
already...
I doubt the Core Animation stuff will become available, though.
Maybe someone else on the list can comment about Apple's reasoning
behind dropping future API support.
- Terry
On Aug 16, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Vince Marco wrote:
In the past Cocoa Java apps really haven't been very interesting to
me. I've been on a Mac long before Java, but my Java development
has been J2EE, Swing, and SWT. But now that Apple is shipping
Intel-based computers capable of running Windows and Linux, I find
access to Cocoa and the Core APIs from Java would be compelling.
I am currently consulting to a Fortune 100 company on Wall Street,
which does not include OSX as a supported OS. However, I do all my
work on a MacBook Pro, and there are a few other users that are
unofficial mac users. My point here is that companies need
motivation for opening up to Apple products. Individuals at the
companies I visit always gawk at what I can do on my Mac, but
companies don't currently take notice.
My app is EclipseRCP and involves data center recovery and
visualization. Currently my app is pretty simple, but provides a
very compelling GUI to the managers and executives backing the
effort, and is built on OSX and delivered for OSX, Windows and
Linux. Most specifically it is a rich client app accessing an SOA
backend. I believe that as enterprises extend into Service-
Oriented Architectures, they will be more open to rich client
applications. Since XML enables crossing technologies, it opens
the door to have rich client applications which specialize in
specific areas such as 3D visualization. The demo of CoreAnimation
in Leopard struck a chord with what I'm doing. Creating an app
that can produce visualization of applications, servers, and
networking in and among multiple data centers is exactly the kind
of thing that could pull OSX into the enterprise space (unlike the
still impressive flying album covers in 3D). And it's also the
kind of thing that AJAX (or Windows for that matter) just isn't
going to be able to match, at least as efficiently.
However, asking enterprises to foster and support Objective-C
development is pushing a bit too far. So here is my request to
Apple for getting behind Cocoa Java and especially Core API access
from Java. While it wouldn't guarantee enterprise adoption of OSX,
it could open the door to getting OSX as an accepted platform in
many organizations (for specific purposes anyway) and lead to a
market that currently totally ignores Apple products.
Vince Marco
Enterprise Frameworks, Inc.
(and Taligent Alumni ;-)
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