QuickTime for Java: A Developer Reference (QuickTime Developer Series)

This book, part of the QuickTime Developer Series, is an essential quick reference for the QuickTime and Java programmer. It provides you with a wealth of programming examples as well as a handy reference that gives you an in-depth, class-by-class description of the API. The authors are part of the original QuickTime engineering team that pioneered and developed QuickTime for Java. A CD-ROM at the back of the book provides you with working sample code and other resources, so you can get started right away building your own Java applications and applets. Apple's QuickTime technology has set the industry standard for developing and distributing multimedia content over the Web and on CD-ROMs. QuickTime's powerful, extensible software toolkit enables programmers, Web content developers, and multimedia producers to deliver state-of-the-art digital content-movies, audio, and music. Using Java, the same application can be deployed on any platform that supports QuickTime. if you know Java, you'll want to tap into the power and is extensibility of QuickTime. If you know C or C + +, this book will introduce you to the core QuickTime technologies and their usage from Java. Each chapter is designed to bring you rapidly up to speed in particular areas of QuickTime usage with neatly explained and commented sample code and tutorials. QuickTime for Java contains the following: • An overview of the QuickTime architecture • An inside look at the QuickTime for Java programming model and architecture • Programming examples and tutorials that demonstrate key features A comprehensive quick reference of all classes and methods, interfaces, and fields in the core QuickTime for Java API