According to Sun's Web site, a Mac version is due later this year. StarOffice is a downloadable cross-platform office-productivity suite that includes components for word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, graphics, Web publishing, scheduling, database and management applications. Now that Apple and Sun are working more closely together, users hope that Sun's StarOffice product will be coming to the Mac platform soon. The application environment is advanced, offers great reusability and provides more-rapid development, Bourdon said. While Carbon is the means by which most Mac developers will get their apps up to speed for Mac OS X, Cocoa is recommended by Apple for developers with new ideas who are creating applications for the future. What's more, Cocoa already features extensive Java integration, Bourdon said. Functions published in the operating system as a "service" can be accessed by other Cocoa applications. According to Apple, developers using Cocoa can re-use up to 90 percent of their code for future work. "We'll be part of the group that defines the future of Java," Bourdon said.Ĭocoa is a collection of advanced, object-oriented APIs for developing applications written in Java and Objective-C.
And Apple is also becoming part of the Java Executive Steering Committee. We're working very closely with Sun to make a great implementation of Java on Mac OS X."Īpple ( aapl) is also making it possible for Java applications to adopt the Aqua interface look of Mac OS X so they'll look just like Carbon applications, for instance. Now we want to round things out by having Java as a fantastic desktop product. We realize that Sun ( sunw) has done great things with Java on the embedded and server sides of things. "This is a big win for us and for our customers. "This announcement has made a lot of people very happy," he said. It will be the only high-volume OS that does so, according to Chris Bourdon, Apple product marketing manager for Mac OS X. As Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced at May's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif., Mac OS X will come with a full implementation of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java 2, Standard Edition.
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