Early Adopter Mac OS X Java

by Daniel H. Steinberg, Eric Albert, James Hart, et al.

Mac OS X is a UNIX-based operating system. It comes with development tools, and Java 2 standard edition implementation, including a HotSpot client virtual machine. Using Java as a development language... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 186100611X
• ISBN13: 9781861006110
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Just what I was looking for...

If you are looking for an excellent book on Java on the new Macintosh operating system OS X, this is one to get. The writing style is well done and the book, in terms of content, is well thought out. I am enjoying the authors coverage of pure Java vs Mac OS X specific issues in particular. Keep up the good job.

Good Book for Experienced Java Programmer

This book is a good book for the experienced Java Programmer and happens to be the only modern book out there discussing Java on the Mac OS X platform. A thin book, only about 200 pages, it contains no fluff; every section of the book deals leads you through the essentials for tapping Mac OS X's built in Java VM and optionally COCOA. The sixth chapter of the 7 chapter book is devoted to using COCOA in your Java Applications, making them bound to run only on Mac OS X, but allowing greater power by leveraging the the bridge between Java and Objective C and thereby using the native Mac code in a fast and efficient manner.

Holds what it promises

Overall a well written book. It collects information scattered in different documents in the web, it even explains Cocoa basics well for an pure Java-Programmer. Just some superfluos pages (Which reader is addressed, when a pure Java AWT/Swing example is shown?), otherwise 5 stars.