Netscape IFC & Constructor

presented by

Jim White

Directory of Technology

Adventure Online Gaming, Inc.

Netscape DevEdge Champion for IFC

jim@aognet.net

Netscape IFC Resources

The Netscape IFC home page

http://developer.netscape.com/library/ifc/index.html

• Java classes, source, documentation, and examples.
  • Aquarium
  • AddressBook
  • SimpleDraw
  • Mandelbrot
• Constructor
  • WYSIWYG GUI builder for IFC.
• FREE - including source!
• FAQ .
• Discussion group (for DevEdge members).
• Licensing info (free but don't distribute modified versions).
• Showcase (third party libraries and applications).

Develop your applets and applications with IFC!

Archived Presentations From DevCon 2

http://developer.netscape.com/library/archivedconf/fall96/index.html

• Look under Programming Practices.
• Quality introduction by Dave Moore "DESIGNING USER INTERFACES USING IFC ".

Books

• Using Netscape IFC, Arun Rao, QUE, 294pp *recommended*
• Netscape IFC in a Nutshell, Petrich and Flanagan, O'Reilly, 355pp
• Mastering Netscape IFC, Steven Holzner, Sybex, 816pp
• Late Night Netscape IFC
• Netscape ONE Developer's Guide, William R. Stanek, Sams.net, 132 of 822 pages
• Developing for Netscape ONE, Mike Morgan, QUE, 24 of 515 pages
• Official Netscape ONE Book, Luke Duncan & Sean Michaels, Ventana Communications Group, first 135 of 378 pages

Applications using Netscape IFC

Indius Components

• Library extension with excellent Tree and Grid (Table) views.
• Sample code includes a nifty Windows-style file explorer and calendar/PIM components.

Netscape Visual JavaScript

• Editor/Debugger.

Digerati superMail

• IMAP4/POP3/SMTP mail client.

Digerati Discussor

• NNTP news client.

Sarrus Pencil Me In

• Scheduling groupware.

Visual Numerics JWAVE

• Java client for visualizing PV-WAVE server data.

Netmosphere ActionPlan

• Groupware.
• Report on how IFC helped them develop their product.

Intra2000 IntraPlan

• Project management.

Netscape IFC Notes

Released v1.0 December 1996.

Currently v1.1.2.

Exploits JDK 1.1 features where available.

No application changes needed for AWT 1.1 delegation event model.

Certified 100% Pure Java (the only GUI to do so).

Distributed with Communicator 4.0.

Uses "resource" model for GUI like MacOS & NextStep/OpenStep.

FREE - including source!