Support for Apple Extensions

[Paul Taylor]

On 05/07/2013 12:29, Robert Krüger wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Artem Ananiev <artem.ananiev at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 7/5/2013 1:20 PM, Kaydell Leavitt wrote:
>>> Hi Alan,
>>>
>>> I would say that I absolutely need the following things:
>>>
>>> 1. JFileChooser Save dialog  that is native for both files and for folders
>>> 2. JFileChooser Open dialog that is native for both files and folders.
>>> 3. Print Command that is native
>>> 4. A menu jar at the top of the screen -- not at the top of the window.
>>> (Where a Mac user expects it to be.)
>>> 5. Preferences menu item where it is expected to be (in the application
>>> menu calling an ApplicationListener)
>>> 6. About menu item where it is expected to be (in the application menu
>>> calling an ApplicationListener)
>>> 7. The quit menu item working in where the user expects it (in the
>>> application menu calling an ApplicationListener).
>>> 8. The Services menu should just work.
>>>
>>> I think that would work for me.
>>
>> All the above is UI related stuff (eAWT). It should work in JDK7/8 as it
>> worked in Apple JDK6, since the code was contributed to OpenJDK by Apple
>> with little or no modifications. Note, however, that it is not as supported
>> as public APIs in java.* and javax.* namespace. We don't have any plans to
>> drop support for eAWT, but all the issues in these classes will be of lower
>> priority by default.
>>
>> What about eIO? Is it used by anybody?
> Yep. We use com.apple.eio.FileManager.revealInFinder(File) and
> com.apple.eio.FileManager.moveToTrash(File) although, to be honest, it
> would probably not be a too terrible thing to replace those by native
> calls to their NSFileManager counterparts via JNA or something
> similar.
>
But it would be difficult for many Java developers like me who choose 
Java so they can write cross-platform applications without having to 
fully understand the intricacies of the native OS, I have never written 
anything that directly makes MacOS calls

Paul