QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook

Organization

This book is organized into chapters of related material, but as you’ll see, this is no “animal book,” nor is it an Inside Macintosh, for that matter. Each chapter is broken down into tasks, most of which can be understood fairly independently. In some cases, a chapter will start off with a complete running application, like the movie player in Chapter 2 or the editor in Chapter 3, then gradually add features (undo, redo, save, etc.) in successive tasks by indicating only what new code needs to be added to implement the feature. The only exception is a startup/teardown convenience class, QTSessionCheck, introduced in Chapter 1 and used by nearly all the other examples as a means of reducing distracting boilerplate code throughout the book.

Each task exists as a complete example in the downloadable sample code, which is hosted at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/quicktimejvaadn.