Contents

  1. You want to do what?!?
  2. Getting started
  3. The desktop
  4. A pseudo-base class
  5. Joy and grief
  6. Timing is everything (or sometimes nothing)
  7. Conclusions / Lessons Learned

Conclusions / Lessons Learned

Here are some of the lessons that resulted from this effort:

  1. Painting is a challenge when accomodating nested components (Window descendants).

  2. All Java Virtual Machines are not created equal.

  3. If you really want a Mac, go buy one.

  4. Adding features is actually a lot of fun and not too time consuming. For example, tweaking the appearance and behavior of folder windows.

  5. I will make available better code as time permits. Or, send me email.

Related Links

Java home page: info, tools, etc.

Mac OS Runtime for Java: runtime, dev tools, etc.

MacTech Magazine: Java articles

Andrew's home page: Java and MacOS apps

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