Graphical User Interfaces - Java - page 601

}
}
But there's more! You still don't get to handle “normal” (to Mac users) Mac-style Quit,
Preferences, Print, or About requests (Cmd-Q, Cmd-comma, Cmd-P, or Application→About,
respectively). For these options, you need to use some classes in the com.apple.eawt pack-
age, which are not included in current JDKs.
See Also
For older releases, you can read about this in the Apple Developer Documentation that
comes with Mac OS X.
See Mac OS X for Java Geeks by Will Iverson (O'Reilly) for more information on Mac OS
X. Apple has been slowly moving away from Java, so it no longer maintains very much doc-
umentation on it. However, Apple's list of System Properties was still available at Apple's
developer site as of January 2014. As of that same time, Oracle has some ancient Sun articles
on Mac Java: “Bringing your Java Application to Mac OS X” and “Bringing your Java Ap-
plication to Mac OS X Part Two” . Unfortunately, these refer to classes in com.apple.eawt ,
which in Java 7 fail to compile with the following error message:
Access restriction: The method addApplicationListener(ApplicationListener)
from the type Application is not accessible due to restriction on required
library
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/rt.jar
I used to provide an adapter class, com.darwinsys.macosui.MacOSAppAdapter , which
made the now-restricted classes easier to use, but discontinued it when the corresponding
classes disappeared from the JDK. The code is still available on my GitHub repo . You may
be able to find some additional articles on Apple's developer site .
It seems you may be best off living with the use of System properties to adapt to the OS X
environmnent.