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Mac OS X & Java - A perfect marriage

Mac OS X sports a new look, not just on the outside with its great look and feel but also on the inside. OS X is proudly built on top of a BSD Unix-based core foundation. An exciting aspect of the new operating system is that the latest version of the Java 2 platform (J2SE v1.3) is preinstalled in every Macintosh notebook and desktop preloaded with OS X. (The current release is 10.1, however, in this article I’m referring to the latest version of OS X, v10.1.1.)

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#13	DV commented on the 23 Apr 2002 Unlike the first Apple-- list price: $666.66
#12	initgraf commented on the 23 Apr 2002 I can't really comment on the JDK1.4 comment, but you mentioned that InterfaceBuilder doesn't support Swing. It never will (and thank God for that). InterfaceBuilder is primarily for Cocoa apps and has been retrofitted for Carbon apps. Swing and Cocoa programming (which can be done in Java, but Objective-C is much better) are about as close to each other as MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) and Perl. They aren't! The best Java RAD apps can do with Swing is code generation (which usually takes a roundabout approach to putting the GUI together). InterfaceBuilder generates no code. The GUI elements you drag from the palette are actual objects instantiated and manipulates at runtime. When you save your .nib file, you are actually archiving the object hierarchy that makes up the GUI for your app into a file. That file is can be loaded (and thus unarchived) at runtime, with all the connections between the GUI widgets and your app-specific classes intact. This approach is much better than Swing IMHO. Get even the most complicated GUI fully functional in minutes and never have to worry about how optimized the code generation was. If you need to make dynamic changes to the GUI at runtime, the GUI objects have methods for that too. For Apple to make InterfaceBuilder generate Swing code would contradict the original purpose of the program: to make GUIs effortless to create and change. Besides, the Swing (and Java) event model is completely different than Cocoa's. There isn't an aggregation of EventListener interfaces in Cocoa. Every on-screen widget can be subclassed to override low-level events such as mouse and keyboard events. Instead of an ActionListener interface, each clickable widget has a target and an action. The target can be whatever object you want (regardless of class), and the action can have any name (instead of actionPerformed()). And what's better is that the target and action and classes that will contain them can be created and graphically linked to the proper GUI widgets without writing any code all inside of InterfaceBuilder. If you want a Swing code generator, there are plenty of available apps to choose from that will run on MacOS X. InterfaceBuilder is too sophisticated for something like that. Just my $.02
#11	CORY MARTIN commented on the 19 Apr 2002 hello im a new mac user i got the new imac and i love it.i I like to get some screenshots if i could i did pay 4 a book i did not get? from apple im in nova scotia canada 11 david st. b1a 3z2 but some screenshots wow would be nice oh by the way did i say .....I LOVE IMAC this is coming from a person who has used a PC now for 10 years and mac is the way to go ...4 now on im mac 4 life thanks 4 any help you send me :) HAVE A GOOD DAY cory martin
#10	Steve Evans commented on the 18 Apr 2002 The correction should be 667 MHz not 666MHz nor 66 MHz for the top end PowerBook G4. I think Apple may have done that to get away from the negative associations with the number 666.
#9	Jacoby Thwaites commented on the 16 Apr 2002 That's right - Apple's got a LOT of catching up to do with Java. Key gripes: 1. JDK is behind Windows 2. Developer Tools needs much, much more Java support (NetBeans works and is v. v. powerful but is ghastly to use in comparison) 3. No Java 3D 4. Interface Builder with Dev Tools has no Swing support. This is a real downer. 5. Dev tools has no neat wizards for Servlets/JSP, RMI, JINI or any of the latest Java stuff (s'pose this is the same as 2) etc. Nonetheless, you'll never, ever get me onto a PC. Not only that, but I've made 2 conversions to the cause in the last 2 weeks with my TiBook + OS X.
#8	palec commented on the 14 Apr 2002 Latest version JDK is 1.4 but not for Mac :-(
#7	jmacmullin commented on the 11 Apr 2002 If you're looking for an easy-to-use IDE for Java programming on Mac OS X - why not try JJEdit - [visit link]
#6	horacio commented on the 11 Apr 2002 goddamit guys! pb titanium is 6670 mhz!
#5	fivenorth commented on the 10 Apr 2002 Dudes! It's 667 MHZ! Geez...
#4	Aaron Yates commented on the 10 Apr 2002 Not 66mhz or 666mhz 687mhz
#3	Peter Leing commented on the 10 Apr 2002 In the paper version of this article you state that the Titanium PowerBook G4 has a 66MHz PowerPC G4 processor, it should be 666MHz.
#2	Mason commented on the 10 Apr 2002 Latest version is 10.1.3, not 10.1.1.
#1	Florentin Westermann commented on the 9 Apr 2002 By the way, i saw that you made screenshots with the Application "Grab". It goes easier. Press "Command shift 3" (without ") for a screen grab or "command shift 4" and select the part of the screen which you want to "grab" regards, florentin