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Eitan Suez's BlogImpressions of "Mac OS X for Java Geeks"Posted by eitan on July 10, 2003 at 02:30 PM | Comments (1)I recently read Will Iverson's "Mac OS X for Java Geeks" and thought I'd contribute my impressions of this recently published book. In summary:
This is one of these topics where you know it's a hot topic but you can't quite define it. Maybe it's because Mac OS X and Java are fairly orthogonal. On the one hand, there exist Apple extensions to Java which allow you to do cool things but that sort of defeats the very purpose of Java. On the other hand, anything pure Java has nothing to do with OS X. Nevertheless I believe the author did a good job with this book in terms of its structure, and covering various Mac OS X'ish things related to Java from bundling a Java desktop application for the Mac OS X platform, to Apple-specific APIs such as the spelling framework, quicktime, and speech. Other topics covered pertain to installing popular Java apps such as Tomcat or Jboss on OS X. There's also the prerequisite how to set up mysql and postgresql for Mac OS X. Lastly, I enjoyed the last topic on Web Services and the sample AppleScript clients that call the java web services developed in that chapter. The main dilemma with a book on this topic is that Apple has been moving fairly fast with upgrades and redid a lot of things with the release of J2SE 1.4.1 for OS X, including how apps are bundled. The Jar bundler is now the main utility for bundling apps (and no longer the MRJ AppBuilder). An easy read, doesn't assume much (if any) a priori knowledge of various Java APIs, Mac OS X, or databases. Bookmark blog post:  del.icio.us  Digg  DZone  Furl  Reddit
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