Growl Java API

[stringbean]

As part of my work I was looking into adding Growl support for our Java application but as many people are aware Apple removed the APIs that it depended on (bad Apple ). This has prompted me to write a simple Java API to wrap the native Cocoa calls.

So far I've tested it using Java 5 and Java 6 (64-bit) on Mac OS X 10.5. The Makefiles are configured to build ppc/i386/x86_64 and should work on 10.4 (although you will need to build it on 10.5). The API should degrade gracefully if it is run on a non-Mac system - it won't throw any errors, blow up or anything like that.

Basic code usage is shown below:

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Growl growl = GrowlUtils.getInstance("My Funky Java App");
growl.addNotification("Something has happened", true);
growl.register();

// snip
growl.sendNotification("Something has happened", "Notification!", "Wake up lazy bones!");

A quick and dirty example app is included in the source that you can run with:

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ant run

Hopefully this will be of use to people. If the Growl devs are willing I would like to get this included in the main Growl SDKs (after the kinks are ironed out).

[The_Tick]

Go ahead and start posting on our mailing list about this one. I think it'd be a great addition with say, 1.1.4 or 1.2.

[stringbean]

Posting a new version of the API. This version now includes the ability to register notification click callbacks.

edit: added attachment

[chamerling]

Nice work. Is is planned to get it in the Growl developper toolkit? If not you should publish it on a source code repository.
Thanks for that.

[boredzo]

Wishlist bug filed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/growl/+bug/363198

[hais]

Has any progress been made on this API since? I'm actually more interested in the dummy class for non-macos systems.