Mac OS X in a Nutshell

The Developer Folder

The /Developer folder contains the following subfolders:

Applications

Aqua applications for development, as detailed further in the next section.

Documentation

This folder holds an immense amount of system documentation in HTML and PDF format, covering the entirety of Mac OS X from a developer’s point of view. Topics range from general descriptions of system functionality, to highly specific reference manuals, to the Cocoa and Carbon programming APIs. For more about the documentation that the Developer Tools offer, see Section 15.4.1.

All the documentation found in this folder also exists on Apple’s developer web site, http://developer.apple.com.

Examples

The /Examples folder contains a wide variety of application project folders, organized by category. Some are .pbproj files and related Aqua interface and localization resources all ready for opening in Project Builder, while others are simple shell scripts or AppleScripts that demonstrate various concepts.

The /Examples/Web Services folder, for example, contains a source to an Aqua application called XMethodsInspector , a couple of AppleScripts (embedded in shell scripts), and a couple of C++ source files. All show different ways of invoking SOAP and XML-RPC web services from your software.

Headers

This folder contains FlatCarbon flat header files, which help developers port applications from Mac OS 9 (which had no concept of Frameworks—see Section 15.7.1, later in this chapter, for the difference). The ...