Re: Cocoa classes -> Java?

FROM : Patrick M
DATE : Mon Jan 14 20:06:23 2008

I assume there is a way to call Java from Cocoa? something like JNI for
Cocoa?

On Jan 14, 2008 1:43 PM, Chris Hanson <<email_removed>> wrote:

> 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
>
>