Rhapsody Developer's Guide [Paperback]

Jesse Feiler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 20, 1997

This book provides a road map to Rhapsody technology and the ways it can be used. Based on a modern microkernel, Rhapsody runs on PowerPC and Intel processors, and supports traditional Mac OS applications (in the Blue Box) as well as modern applications in the Yellow Box. Totally object orientated, the Yellow Box platform offers an unparalleled development environment that permits rapid implementation of functionality ranging from traditional personal computer applications to media-rich, Internet-enabled, and database-driven applications for the next century.
This book describes the architecture of Rhapsody, including its cross-platform implementation on PowerPC and Intel. It details the Yellow Box platform (based on OpenStep) and provides a complete description of the core API, as well as description of the architecture that will be enriched in the future with additional functionality from Apple. The languages of Rhapsody are discussed, and the API is presented in a language-neutral way that will be convenient for C++ developers, classic and modern Objective-C users, and Java programmers. Throughout, there is an emphasis on how Rhapsody relates to existing investments in code and programming expertise. Screen shots and code samples from products shipping today using Rhapsody technology provide opportunities and challenges to new Rhapsody developers.



* Introduces the terminology and concepts of Rhapsody
* Provides an overview of the languages of Rhapsody: Objective-C, Java, and C++
* Covers the development platform in detail, providing an in-depth look at the framework that lets developers create Rhapsody applications

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Jesse Feiler is Software Director of Philmont Software Mill. Co-author of Finding and Fixing Your Year 2000: A Guide for Small Businesses and Organizations with Barbara Butler, and the author of the upcoming FileMaker Pro and the World Wide Web, Jesse has also written Rhapsody Developer's Guide, Cyberdog, and Real World Apple Guide. He has served as a consultant, author, and speaker for many prestigious businesses, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Prodigy, Kodak, Young & Rubicam, and Apple Computer, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 492 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press (August 20, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0122513347
• ISBN-13: 978-0122513343
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,719,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Software developer and author specializing in new technologies, Mac OS X, and FileMaker. Consulting through North Country Consulting focuses on small business and non-profits, helping them use new technologies to manage their operations in retail, production, contact management, and planning.

Active in the non-profit world, treasurer of HB Studio and HB Playwrights Foundation, past-president of Mid-Hudson Library System. Interested in non-profit governance, specializing in trustee training seminars.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A complete orginization of the Openstep environment :-), September 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Rhapsody Developer's Guide (Paperback)

I have been looking for a complete source of information and instruction for the Openstep programming environment. This book got me up and programming yellowbox applications in a couple days. A greate learning and reference tool.

2.0 out of 5 stars Good reference material but not much practical instruction, April 29, 1998

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R. Scott Thompson (Plano, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rhapsody Developer's Guide (Paperback)

The Rhapsody Developers Guide is more a conglomeration of a large set of OpenStep documentation than it is a practical guide to Rhapsody development.

The first section of the book is an interesting introduction to operating system design. This section is interesting reading for anyone who hasn't had a good introductory course on Operating Systems at the undergraduate level.

The second part of the book regurgitates much of the reference information found in the OpenStep AppKit and Foundation Kit framework guides. The advantage to the Rhapsody Developers guide is that it puts this information in one volume with a comprehensive index.

Unfortunately, however, the book contains little practical information on how to use the "Yellow Box" frameworks that are the heart of Rhapsody.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars this book is not recommendable, August 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Rhapsody Developer's Guide (Paperback)

This book is more reference manual than a Pratical Guide. But if need a reference manual, it is more convenient to use the online documentation in HMTL provided with Rhapsody. This book is not worth to make more comments. I am disappointed !