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Darwin and Core Technologies

This chapter summarizes the fundamental system technologies and facilities that are available to developers in Mac OS X. If you are new to developing Mac OS X software, you should read through this chapter at least once to understand the available technologies and how you might use them in your software. Even experienced developers should revisit this chapter periodically to remind themselves of the available technologies and look for recently introduced technologies.

Contents:

Darwin
Binary File Architecture
Security
IPC and Notification Mechanisms
Core Foundation
Objective-C
Java Support

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