Early Adopter Mac OS X Java

If you are looking for an excellent book on Java on the new Macintosh operating system OS X, this is one to get. The writing style is well done and the book, in terms of content, is well thought out. I am enjoying the authors coverage of pure Java vs Mac OS X specific issues in particular. Keep up the good job.

This book is a good book for the experienced Java Programmer and happens to be the only modern book out there discussing Java on the Mac OS X platform. A thin book, only about 200 pages, it contains no fluff; every section of the book deals leads you through the essentials for tapping Mac OS X's built in Java VM and optionally COCOA. The sixth chapter of the 7 chapter book is devoted to using COCOA in your Java Applications, making them bound to run only on Mac OS X, but allowing greater power by leveraging the the bridge between Java and Objective C and thereby using the native Mac code in a fast and efficient manner.

Overall a well written book. It collects information scattered in different documents in the web, it even explains Cocoa basics well for an pure Java-Programmer. Just some superfluos pages (Which reader is addressed, when a pure Java AWT/Swing example is shown?), otherwise 5 stars.