Jinkies! Acquisition is written in Java!!

jamdr · Apr 16, 2005, 11:10 PM

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 · Apr 16, 2005, 11:13 PM

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 · Apr 16, 2005, 11:44 PM

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 · Apr 23, 2005, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by jamdr

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 · May 3, 2005, 04:25 PM

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 · May 3, 2005, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by harveypooka

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..

fedora · May 3, 2005, 05:41 PM

It's cocoa, not java.

harveypooka · May 3, 2005, 05:42 PM

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!

Apr 16, 2005, 11:10 PM	#1
jamdr macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Bay Area	Jinkies! Acquisition is written in Java!! 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?
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Apr 16, 2005, 11:13 PM	#2
PlaceofDis macrumors 604 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Chicago.	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!! __________________ dim my eyes on the waves of confessions...
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Apr 16, 2005, 11:44 PM	#3
gallivant macrumors member Join Date: Dec 2004	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. __________________ Adamant: TiBook 867, 512MB RAM. Kaylee: 12" iBook 1.33ghz. Saraswati: 2.8ghz Pentium 4 desktop running Ubuntu Linux. 40 gig 4G iPod.
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harveypooka macrumors 65816 Join Date: Feb 2004	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?
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fedora macrumors member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: kent, uk	It's cocoa, not java.
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harveypooka macrumors 65816 Join Date: Feb 2004	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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