Support for Apple Extensions

[Doug Zwick]

Alan Bateman wrote:

> It is somewhat less clear as to the usage on
> jdk7u builds, the reason being (as was mentioned) that the NON_CORE_PKGS
> list was not updated and so code that uses these APIs doesn't compile
> with 7 unless you do something special.  As the latter doesn't appear to
> have brought a crowd with pitchforks onto the streets then it might be a
> sign of slow adoption or maybe it means that folks are compiling with
> JDK 6 and deploying to 7.

Because our app is cross-platform, and our developers use multiple platforms while developing, we use reflection to access the Apple APIs, which shouldn't trip over the NON_CORE_PKGS list. This allows the code to be compiled with any JDK, and still use the Apple APIs when running on a Mac JRE. We have used both the stub approach and dynamic proxy to implement Apple-specific interfaces. I'm sure many other shops have done similar things for much the same reason, so the mob likely won't take to the streets until/unless the API is dropped from the JRE.


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