November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
19h 59m
English
JMF based applets and applications tend to require particular programming approaches that other general calculation programs don't usually possess. This section addresses those approaches.
The JMF deals with time-based media. That requires not only a sophisticated model of time, but also support for the idiosyncratic and asynchronous behavior of a range of hardware devices and networks. Different capture devices might take considerably different times to become ready, network streams might drop out, and file systems might become full through saving large media files. All these eventualities and many, many more should be dealt with robustly and appropriately by a well-written JMF program.
Event-driven ...