The Nib File
The nib file in a Java Client application seems identical to nib files in stand-alone Yellow Box applications. You drag objects from palettes onto a window "surface" and these palettes and their objects look exactly like objects in stand-alone. However, these similarities of appearances are deceiving. When the EOJavaClient palette has been loaded into Interface Builder and you create a user interface, the nib file contains two parallel object graphs, one populated with Yellow Box objects and the other with Swing (JFC) objects. The Swing object graph constitutes a "Java archive" that is loaded onto the client.© 1999 Apple Computer, Inc. – (Last Updated 13 Sep 99)
