Early Adopter Mac OS X Java - Softcover

Mac OS X is a new operating system for almost everybody. Mac users may feel slightly more at home with some aspects of its interface, but anybody coming from a UNIX background will also find familiar features that Mac users will find totally alien. Therefore, this book doesn't make any assumptions about whether you come from a Mac or non-Mac background. What it does assume, however, is that you're reasonably experienced with Java, or perhaps in the process of learning it.

Daniel Steinberg is the Director of Java Offerings for Dim Sum Thinking in Cleveland, Ohio. He has covered Java on the Mac for the last five years for JavaWorld magazine, writes a monthly column for the O'Reilly Mac DevCenter, is a regular contributor for IBM's developerWorks and was an author on the recent Wrox title Professional Web Objects.

Murray Todd Williams works as a freelance computer consultant. He has programmed computers since he was eight years old, from the ancient HP-85 to his new Dual-G4 Power Mac! For the last seven years he has fanatically supported Linux and the entire Open Source movement and has worked on migrating Open Source projects to OS X.

Eric Albert worked on the Java classes team at Apple for more than two years while still a student at Stanford University. He has also taught introductory programming at Stanford, and is currently a software engineer for a company in Seattle. He can be reached via email at ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu.

James Hart is a writer and programmer, employed as a Technical Architect on the Early Adopter editorial team at Wrox Press. As well as writing this book, he has also contributed to the Wrox books Professional Java XML and Java XML Programmer's Reference, in both cases writing about IBM's Java-based Web Services platform.

John Hopkins earned his B.S. in mathematics at Texas Christian University, before starting his programming career at General Dynamics. He moved on to develop desktop applications for the Mac OS first with Data Tailor, then with the SU5 Group, helping with the creation of Trapeze, Persuasion, DeltaGraph, FaxSTF Network and Meeting Maestro. He is currently studying upcoming XML and peer-to-peer computing technologies for virtual supercomputing and cycle selling projects.