how can I develop Apple Java Extensions on Windows?

Question

When I do multi-platform testing on Windows it gets annoying that Eclipse shows errors in the project because of the com.apple.eawt code that I have in a special Mac customi

Answer 1

Put the OS X specific code in a separate class.

In your main code, use reflection to see if one of the Apple classes are present (or a Class.forName), and if so, THEN invoke the separate class above. I cannot remember if you can do that safely just by calling it, or you need to invoke the separate class by reflection too.