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Re: Im starting to despise java programming for the mac (original poster)

Part of JavaFX is supposed to address playback of video media. The goal is that anything playable on the systems native player (MediaPlayer on Windows, Quicktime on Mac, whatever passes for a media player on Linux, etc.) should be playable from new media APIs available to JavaFX...

Assuming the Mac port of JavaFX (and Java 6 update 10) arrive in a timely fashion (please please please please) that looks like a decent way to go for Java developers needing media playback.

+1 to Apple open-sourcing legacy stuff they don't have time to maintain themselves. Specially if it free up time to get new Java releases out faster. OpenJDK is great.. but unless Apple moves their own development efforts into it and pulls the result into Software Update it's not all that exciting to me. Hmm... maybe that isn't such a bad idea... In fact then I could reverse the idea of open-sourcing QTJava - any work saved by using OpenJDK could then be used by the Apple dev team to maintain the Apple specific technologies like QTJava, Cocoa bridge, etc... whatever has the bigger payoff I guess.

Scott


On 27-Aug-08, at 3:02 PM, Filip Defoort wrote:

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Mike Swingler <email@hidden> wrote: 
On Aug 27, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Adam Ornstein wrote:

Oh also, I developed this to use QTJava - is it safe to assume that this is
installed on every mac?

Actually, no. QTJava is only present in 32-bit processes, because Quicktime
itself is only available in 32-bit processes. The QTJava API will not be
carried forward to 64-bit because it is in many places a very close clone of
the QT native API (int sized pointers and all).
The best advice I have going forward to 64-bit is to use JNI, and use a
framework that exists in 64-bit like QTKit.
Best of luck, 

Really ? That'd make moving to 64bit quite a hurdle given the size of
my code base.

Could you at least consider open sourcing the QTJava code so we can
port what's needed (e.g. some of the viewer code).

Thanks,
- Filip

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 >Re: Im starting to despise java programming for the mac (From: "Mikael Hakman" <email@hidden>)
 >RE: Im starting to despise java programming for the mac (From: "Eric Kolotyluk" <email@hidden>)
 >RE: Im starting to despise java programming for the mac (original poster) (From: Adam Ornstein <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Im starting to despise java programming for the mac (original poster) (From: Mike Swingler <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Im starting to despise java programming for the mac (original poster) (From: "Filip Defoort" <email@hidden>)



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