BD-J for beginners!?

I posted without thinking things through. There are a lot of other specs and information required to do anything with these examples, and I cannot list them here, though many of them, but not all, are publicly available at no cost.

However there is an open source community emerging where these issues are being examined.

https://hdcookbook.dev.java.net/

It is my personal opinion that industrial strength BD-J programming will never become widespread, but will become encapsulated in WYSIWYG tools.

Regards,

Larry

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Thu, 2008-02-07 23:49 — okeanos

Honestly, not an easy book to grok...

I'm just about done with my first pass through the BD-J part of "The HD Cookbook." Even with a reasonable foundation in Java it's a tough read. BD-J is a patchwork of classes from other standards and there's a lot to put together. Also: unless you have access to a BD-J authoring environment (like Scenarist BD) you can't actually do any BD-J programming. In fact, you can't even compile the examples from the book because of this. To the best of my knowledge the required classes are available only under software license.

Also, as you are learning Java be aware that a) BD-J is based on Java 1.3 which is two revs down from the current release and b) convenience classes like Swing - which simplify a lot of graphics programming tasks - are not part of BD-J. This needs to be kept in mind when reading through the current crop of "How to" books. Many developers recommend looking for old Java 1.3 and AWT (which BD-J does support) books on amazon.com.

Michael

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Thu, 2008-02-07 23:33 — danny

HD COOKBOOK

hey eric,
thanks for ths suggestion.

I bought this book 2 weeks ago and started reading it at the end of last week. I bought the DVD Handbook ( Producing for HD DVD and Blur-Ray Disc ) as well, and started reading this first.

I didn´t have any clue jet about programming the java and xlets and the tools that are necessary to do so, but I think first of all I start programming the HDMV.

I could see, there are a lot informations on the website as well, but I couldn´t get the infos out of it, which I need to get deeper into this stuff.

Probably it is, because it´s to new for me und I better start with reading the cookbook.

Other suggestions are welcome.

danny