QuickTime for Java

Summary Comparision

We've seen two bodies of code illustrated in several examples, one in C and the other in Java. In summary, we could note the following points:

Both pieces of code can open and play a vast number of media files.
The C code is specific to the Macintosh; the Windows version (not shown) is different--though only slightly. Of course, as an application in C is developed around QuickTime, more and more platform-specific code needs to be written, whereas with Java, a framework is provided that is a cross-platform API as well as a cross-platform execution model.
The Java code benefits from the Java class framework with which a developer may already be familiar.
Java runs anywhere, unchanged, so long as QuickTime is available. As other client operating systems gain QuickTime support, the QuickTime for Java code will run there, too.
The Java code is arguably simpler.