Java Developer Documentation: QuickTime for Java

PATHJava Developer Documentation > QuickTime for Java

QuickTime for Java brings together two powerful technologies–QuickTime and Java–allowing developers to create Java software that takes advantage of the multimedia power of QuickTime on both Macintosh and Windows. As a result, it is possible for a Java application to take advantage of the rich media capabilities QuickTime provides, including the ability to play QuickTime movies, edit and create movies, capture audio and video, and perform sophisticated 2D and 3D animations.

Introduction to Quicktime for Java
QuickTime for Java presents the QuickTime 3 API as a set of Java classes. These classes offer equivalent APIs for using QuickTime functionality on both Mac OS and Windows. QuickTime for Java supports the Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) on Mac OS and the Sun JDK 1.1 on Windows NT and Windows 95.

Technical Overview
The QuickTime Application Programming Interface (API) is implemented in Java as a set of classes. These classes are grouped into a set of packages, on the basis of common functionality, common usage, and their organization in the standard QuickTime header files. It provides both an object model for the QuickTime API and a logical translation or binding of the native function calls into Java method calls.