Sun, for their part, have also left their own multimedia libraries like JMF without support. I don’t want to overstate that argument, though: Apple is a big company, and it behaves like one. I could raise more serious questions about why Apple seems bent on redirecting its operating system efforts to benefit only Apple, in the form of more platform-specific APIs (all carefully leveraged by Apple-branded applications) and, in the case of QuickTime and even allocation of developer resources, tilted toward selling more consumer iPod, iTunes, and iPhone products rather than building the Mac. Maybe I’m missing something, and maybe I’m being overly harsh (there are platform-specific issues on Linux, Windows, and from Sun themselves), but I would like to learn more about how these issues can addressed to make the Mac a more robust Java multimedia development platform. And each time Apple releases some new QT update, apparently in the interest of supporting the iTunes ecosystem rather than actual video production, stuff often breaks. Video sometimes works under QuickTime 7, but there are many potential issues.
#Apple java support mac os x
Note that again, the common theme is Mac OS X 10.4.x. Following an update for QuickTime 6.4 and Java 1.4, Apple seems to have abandoned the platform altogether. On the video side, QuickTime for Java has long been vaporware.
Result: not only do you lose all the features that make the Mac great for MIDI, like the IAC bus for inter-application MIDI routing, but your external devices also spontaneously disappear. On the music side, Apple dumped its java package with 10.4.8. A more significant issue, though, is that Java performance tends to lag on the Mac in multimedia apps and that Apple has dropped support for two of the most important multimedia APIs. That to me doesn’t seem like such a problem - early adoption of each new Java to leap out of Sun is generally a bad idea anyway.
#Apple java support for mac os
Mac users have long complained that, since Apple develops their own Java support for Mac OS X, the platform tends to lag behind Sun’s releases. It’s ironic to me that so many users of the superb, Java-based Processing multimedia tool seem to prefer the Mac, because Mac Java support seems downright anemic.
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