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I am developing a Java 1.6 based cross-platform (Mac OS X, Win and Linux) application. For better integration on Mac Os platform I have to use Mac OS X specific classes, which are neither available on other platform’s JDK or JRE nor can be distributed with the application.
My questions is what is the best strategy to keep code compilable on both Mac OS X and Win platforms without maintaining two different versions?
There is a play with ClassLoaders. It is very similar for plugin development, at least there is used often:
you will build the main, cross platform application
you will declare an interface
you will create a “plugin loader” which will load available plugins. on macosx the mac one, on windows the windows one.
develop and build 3 plugins: mac, linux, windows
-autolink it at runtime with classloader.