[Tfug] Re: Microsoft reveals 'critical' security flaws

[Anthony Hess]

Cocoa is OpenStep.  Now, originally that environment only supported ObjC.
Since almost nobody knows that language (its very similar to C, only OO)
Apple also adopted Java as a language to interface with those APIs.  So you
can build GUIs RAD style and then connect them to stuff written in Java, or
ObjC.  Of course, those apps only run on OS X because Apple yanked the stuff
that ran on Windows (there also used to be Cocoa environments for HP-UX and
Solaris).  Most apps on OS X written in Java do not use Cocoa, but its an
option.

Tony

On 12/15/02 6:08 PM, "Anthony Steckman" <humbl@elitemail.org> wrote:

> 
> I always liked Swing but did seem to encounter glitches and
> cross-platfrom (Windows <--> Linux) inconsistencies from time to time,
> most of which have been resolved as of 1.4.1. At the same time, and
> without much knowledge of what I'm getting involved in, I find this idea
> of using GUI's described as XML quite compelling. They do seem to load
> up a bit faster than similar projects coded with Swing -- and the
> relationship between the GUI and the Java app proper turns out to be
> straightforward (not much different than adding an applet to a
> webpage, really).
> 
> Again, not sure if Cocoa really falls into that category of GUI
> development. Just excited about what is (to me) a very new way of
> approaching things.