Re: Cocoa, Java and C
Re: Cocoa, Java and C
- Subject: Re: Cocoa, Java and C
- From: mmalcolm crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 05:34:12 +0100
Busman wrote:
1.- apple will release a complete support and information for Java on
OS X someday? and, using java with X features, will be like use
Objective C? (any idea of a new O'really book of that?)
I'm sure Apple will continue to invest in making the Cocoa APIs
available from Java, but, fundamentally Java is not like Obj-C. It's
much more strongly-typed (basically Obj-C doesn't enforce typing -- if
an object knows how to respond to a message, it does so, regardless of
class), and more dynamic. Java just "feels" like a bad fit with Cocoa,
which leverages many of Obj-C's strengths.
2.- if there is no posibility of that, any good tutorial to learn
Objective C for a Java man?...
*As far as I'm aware* (updates welcome) nothing specific for folks with
a Java background per se, yet, but I did start to put a few slides
together a while back. Would there be interest in my putting in some
effort in to finishing these?
But Apple's intro to Object Oriented Programming and the Objective-C
Language is *excellent*.
Folks with a C background learn Obj-C in half a day on the Cocoa
course. If you know Java the basics should take you a few hours.
mmalc
Notes:
I have no religious objection to Java -- I look forward to the Pure Java
version of WebObjects.
I have spent a while converting a number of Obj-C examples to Java, and
it was not a pleasant experience.