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Re: [platform-swt-dev] Mac OS X Port
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Checked out JDirect at
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/java/pdf/JDirect_MRJ2.1.pdf.
JDirect looks like a classic Platform Interface implementation - very
much like what SWT has implemented on other platforms.
For as far as I know JDirect, it is a Mac only solution. The preferred
way would be to use JNI.
The things I would be interested to know are:
Is it tied to one VM or does it use JNI under the covers? - How
many Java VMs are available for the Mac?
I have Mac OS X 10.1 installed. Here is the output of
`ls -l' in folder /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 264 Sep 15 05:58 1.2
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 264 Sep 15 05:58 1.3
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 264 Sep 6 05:53 1.3.1
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 264 Sep 11 02:31 A
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1 Sep 6 05:53 Current -> A
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Sep 6 05:53 CurrentJDK -> 1.3.1
Will it give us access to the Aqua API?
Aqua is just how the user interface looks. It doesn't have an API. Cocoa
displays its widgets in the Aqua style. Using JNI, we can access any
native library installed on Mac OS X.
Ringo
