• Application support libraries
  • MRJAdapter. MRJAdapter is a wrapper around some very commonly used MRJ API's which have changed over time in the MRJ. It also is a collection of some well known MRJ "tricks" such as the creation of a window-less screen menu bar.

• User interface support libraries
  • Quaqua Look and Feel. The Quaqua Look and Feel is an extension to Apple's Aqua Look and Feel. It fixes minor bugs and glitches in Apple's Look and Feel and provides additional functionality, such as nearly native looking file and color choosers, as well as added customizability of swing components such as more styles for most of the components. The Quaqua Look and Feel also provides custom components such as a NSBrowser style column view and sheet dialogs.

• OS support libraries
  • MacBinary Toolkit for Java. This toolkit provides a general-purpose mechanism to read and write Mac OS resource forks, file meta-data and Finder comments under MRJ 2.0 or later.
  • Easy Posix Toolkit for Java. The easy posix toolkit is a wrapper for Unix Posix API's, such as for catching signals, changing resource limits, and getting mounted file-system info.
  • Notifications for Java. A wrapper for the Mac OS notification manager. This can be used to make the dock icon of an application bounce and to present alerts to the user when an application is in a background state.

Note: MRJ stands for Macintosh Runtime for Java. MRJ is Apple's Java virtual machine implementation. MRJ has a set of API's which allow to access some Mac OS and Mac OS X specific functionality from Java.

-- Main.wrandelshofer - 11 Feb 2006