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jamdr

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Jul 20, 2003
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Bay Area
If there's one app out there (Apple and non-Apple alike) that makes me think "Aqua GUI" it's Acquisition. Much to my surprise, I learned today that it's programmed in Java! I never even noticed--it always seemed like a lean, 100% native app to me. This is terrific, and great news for Java developers on OS X. Dave must use Cocoa-Java to accomplish this feat, which I've only heard bad things about. But now I've been inspired to give it a try and build a Cocoa GUI for one of my simple Swing apps. I would be more than willing to put a little extra effort into developing a Cocoa front-end for an otherwise cross-platform Java app if it meant greater acceptance by OS X users (who generally hold a negative view of Java, from what I've seen). Anyone have any comments on this?
 

PlaceofDis

macrumors Core
Jan 6, 2004
19,241
6
i love the look and feel and usablity of Aquasition, just hate the pop ups and annoying pleads to get my money, i would probably donate if it were not so annoying

good luck and be sure to share your app with all of us here!!
 

gallivant

macrumors member
Dec 14, 2004
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That's the great thing about Cocoa - it lets Java, which would be a fantastic language if its GUI options weren't complete trash, have a genuinely usable front-end. My own development work is probably going to be C#/Mono and Cocoa-Java from here on out.
 

Jolix

macrumors newbie
Apr 23, 2005
4
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San Diego
jamdr said:
If there's one app out there (Apple and non-Apple alike) that makes me think "Aqua GUI" it's Acquisition. Much to my surprise, I learned today that it's programmed in Java! I never even noticed--it always seemed like a lean, 100% native app to me. This is terrific, and great news for Java developers on OS X. Dave must use Cocoa-Java to accomplish this feat, which I've only heard bad things about. But now I've been inspired to give it a try and build a Cocoa GUI for one of my simple Swing apps. I would be more than willing to put a little extra effort into developing a Cocoa front-end for an otherwise cross-platform Java app if it meant greater acceptance by OS X users (who generally hold a negative view of Java, from what I've seen). Anyone have any comments on this?
Actually Acquisition is coded in Cocoa/Objective-C. It uses the limewire core for all of the p2p networking, which is java. It launches the core with NSTask and reads the io with stdin/stdout. So it's actually 2 processes, Acquisition and AcquisitionCore(limewire).
 

harveypooka

macrumors 65816
Feb 24, 2004
1,291
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Has anyone else's Acquisition code stopped working? I upgraded to Tiger
on friday, everything went fine, then this morning my code stopped working.
I've sent an email to the developer (Dave, I think) but emails never get
answered. Anybody else effected?
 

asif786

macrumors 65816
Jun 17, 2004
1,027
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London, UK.
harveypooka said:
Has anyone else's Acquisition code stopped working? I upgraded to Tiger
on friday, everything went fine, then this morning my code stopped working.
I've sent an email to the developer (Dave, I think) but emails never get
answered. Anybody else effected?

have you upgraded to Java 1.5? if you have, i believe there's known issues with acquisition and java 1.5..
 

harveypooka

macrumors 65816
Feb 24, 2004
1,291
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No, I'm still using Java 1.4.2...the Java 1.5 is a standalone installer, not available via software update? It must be a problem with my reg code then...hmm. Cheers!
 
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