O'Reilly Released "QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook"

Java has been a huge success in many fields--distributed enterprise applications, mobile phones, web applications--but, according to Chris Adamson, author of "QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook" (O'Reilly, $29.95), one field in which Java has clearly flopped is media. From the first sound API, javax.sound, through the various releases of Java Media Framework (JMF), developers have been regularly disappointed in attempts to support media programming in Java. Enter Apple's QuickTime, or more specifically, QuickTime for Java. QTJ is a powerful multimedia toolkit adding audio, video, or interaction playback and creation to applications. But, one shortcoming of QTJ is that getting started with it can be challenging. In terms of class-count, it's nearly as large as Java 1.1, and the included JavaDocs are somewhat lacking.