Re: Cocoa classes -> Java?
Re: Cocoa classes -> Java?
- Subject: Re: Cocoa classes -> Java?
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:15:37 -0800
On Jan 14, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:
On Jan 14, 2008, at 17:29, Patrick M wrote:
I am researching using Java to write an application that will run
on a
variety of platforms including Mac OS X and various Unix/Linux
configurations.
My question is:
Is there a way to create a system menu item (NSStatusItem),
preference pane
and contextual menu using Java instead of Cocoa for Mac OS X?
Not any more. Until Tiger, Apple supported writing Cocoa
applications in Java, but this was removed, probably due to lack of
interest of both Apple and the developers.
Now you have to use JNI as the interface, optionally writing your
own Java Bridge (make sure you publish it if you do that!).
I don't think the Java bridge would necessarily have helped OP --
sounded more like OP wanted a portable API.
In any case, if you do want to go between Java and Objective-C, I
would encourage you to have a poke at what the eclipse folks have been
up to. They have built a some new bridging stuff that was working
quite well for them the last time I had a look (few months ago).
b.bum
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