Re: Cocoa classes -> Java?

FROM : Chris Hanson
DATE : Mon Jan 14 19:43:41 2008

On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Patrick M wrote:

> Is there a way to create a system menu item (NSStatusItem), 
> preference pane
> and contextual menu using Java instead of Cocoa for Mac OS X?
>
> I cannot seem to find anything, and Java being interpreted seems to 
> imply
> that placing some kind of Java class in the /Library/PreferencesPane
> directory wont work.
>
> Anyone had any luck? Is it documented as possible/not possible?


The System Preferences preference pane API and NSStatusItem API are 
Cocoa-based APIs, so by definition you must use Cocoa to write code 
against them.  Finder contextual menu item plug-ins currently use a 
CFPlugIn-based API, not a Cocoa API.

Whether you use Objective-C is orthogonal from whether you use Cocoa, 
though Objective-C is the native language of the Cocoa frameworks.

  -- Chris