Excitement and anticipation is building for Copland, the next major release of
the Mac OS that advances the system in the areas of performance, stability, ease
of use and overall integration of Apple technologies. Copland will offer developers
solid business opportunities and a technology platform to enable great and innovative
products for all the world's markets. During the Conference, attendees will receive
a technology update from last year, and an in-depth look at the strategy, key technology
components, and APIs for Copland.
Topics will cover all aspects of the system
ranging from the User Experience and Text/Imaging to the runtime model as it applies
to application, extension, driver and server developers. Sessions will also detail
compatibility and adoption strategies to help in effective product planning.
| 100 |
Mac OS: Goals, Strategy and Technology Update |
80 Minutes |
Monday |
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| Copland Overview Sessions |
| 102 |
Technical Transition to Copland |
60 Minutes |
Tues & Weds |
| 103 |
Copland Runtime Model |
60 minutes |
Mon &Wed |
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| Key Copland Technologies |
| 104 |
Copland User Experience Overview |
80 minutes |
Mon &Weds |
| 105 |
Copland Human Interface Services |
60 minutes |
Tues & Thurs |
| 106 |
Copland Configuration Management |
60 minutes |
Weds & Thurs |
| 107 |
Copland Help & Assistance Services |
60 minutes |
Weds & Thurs |
| 108 |
Managing Document Content |
80 minutes |
Weds & Thurs |
| 109 |
Decline and Fall of the Event Loop |
80 minutes |
Wednesday |
| 110 |
Copland Text |
80 minutes |
Weds & Thurs |
| 111 |
More Copland Runtime Services |
60 minutes |
Weds & Thurs |
| 112 |
Copland Application Types |
40 minutes |
Weds |
| 113 |
Copland Extension Services |
60 minutes |
Weds & Thurs |
| 114 |
Copland Graphics and Font Rendering |
60 minutes |
Weds |
| 115 |
Copland I/O Overview |
80 minutes |
Tues |
| 116 |
Mass Storage I/O |
60 minutes |
Wednesday |
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| Other Key Sessions for Copland |
| 207 |
OpenDoc and Copland |
60 minutes |
Weds |
| 403 |
Open Transport: The Road to Copland |
60 minutes |
Thursday |
| 601 |
Copland Tools Overview |
60 minutes |
Weds & Fri |
| 192 |
Copland OS Feedback Forum |
60 minutes |
Thursday |
| 194 |
Copland Developer Relations Feedback Forum |
60 minutes |
Thursday |
| 195 |
Copland User Experience Feedback Forum |
60 minutes |
Thursday |
| 196 |
System 7 Feedback Forum |
60 minutes |
Thursday |
| 197 |
Finder Feedback Forum |
60 minutes |
Tuesday |
| 198 |
Help and Assistance Feedback Forum |
60 minutes |
Thursday |
| 199 |
Mac Human Interface Feedback Forum |
60 minutes |
Thursday |
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MacOS: Goals, Strategy and Technology Update
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Hear what Apple is doing to ensure the success of the Mac
OS and the success of our partners and customers. If you attended last year's
sessions, hear about important improvements to Mac OS since last year. |
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Technical Transition to Copland
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The transition to Copland will be a phased one. This session
will detail compatibility strategies and how to best prepare your System
7 product to anticipate Copland. |
| Copland Runtime Model |
Learn the basics of the new Copland runtime architecture
and its advantages over System 7. You'll learn about memory architecture,
addressing model, heap management, tasking, synchronization, processes,
and inter-process communication. |
| Copland User Experience Overview |
Copland includes many new facilities to enhance the user
experience of the MacOS and your products. Hear an overview of these technologies
‹ such as appearances, navigation services, assistance, help and delegation,
the feature manager, and workspaces. |
| Copland Human Interface Services
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Learn about Copland technologies for implementing visual
interfaces such as HI Objects. You'll hear how these components can be customized
and how they significantly simplify and enhance interface code. |
| Copland Configuration Management |
In this session youšll hear how Copland changes configuration
management. Learn about new services that dramatically improve both user
and developer experience of identifying and manipulating configuration and
preference information. |
| Copland Help & Assistance Services |
Copland Assistance and Help Services improves user productivity
by focusing users on their goals rather than on the details of computer
use. Learn about Balloon Help, Apple Guide, Tips, and Experts. |
| Managing Document Content |
Hear about the creation, manipulation, and presentation
of documents and their content in Copland. Learn how Copland expands content-oriented
services and increases the user's ability to access and manipulate information. |
| Decline and Fall of the Event
Loop |
Polling and WaitNextEvent are things of the past. This
session will teach you why Apple Events and dispatching are the future for
easy-to-program and high-performance products. |
| Copland Text |
Learn all about text with Copland ‹ from new keyboard drivers,
the new model for text events, Unicode and Text Objects, new text services
such as find-by-content, and the new line layout model and text rendering. |
| More Copland Runtime |
This session builds on Copland Runtime 101. Learn about
the creation and maintenance of the runtime environment, including booting,
system initialization, process management, workspace switching, etc. We'll
also discuss the implications of mixing new services with compatibility
services. |
| Copland Application Types
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Learn about the alternatives Copland provides for building
your products, such as Copland-only applications, utility applications,
transitional applications and background servers. You'll also hear about
how you can migrate your applications from System 7 to Copland. |
| Copland Extension Services |
Extensibility is a key benefit of Copland. Hear about the
different mechanisms available to support extensibility and how they are
used by components throughout the system. |
| Copland Graphics and Font Rendering |
Learn about Copland's graphics and text rendering services,
including their reentrant and resolution-independent foundation, acceleration,
integrated line layout, the Open Font Architecture, and ColorSync. |
| Copland I/O Overview |
Learn about the I/O system's breakthrough performance and
flexibility. We'll focus on technologies and policies for all device families,
a Roadmap to detailed family information, and information on booting and
Open Firmware. |
| Copland Mass Storage I/O |
Hear about all I/O families involved in moving data to
and from block storage devices ‹ including the File System, SCSI, and Block
Storage. This session is primarily for developers of plug-ins for these
components. |
| Working with Copland DRI |
Learn about the documentation, software, and goodies that
will be on the Copland Developer Release CD-ROM and how to make progress
with this milestone release of the Mac OS. |
| Copland Business Opportunities/Co-Marketing
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Copland will offer business opportunities even more compelling
than the introduction of the Power Macintosh. Learn how the global market
will shape up for Copland and comarketing opportunities. |
| Copland Graphics and Printing |
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| OpenDoc and Copland |
Description to follow.
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| Open Transport: The
Road to Copland |
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| Copland Printing
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| Copland Tools Overview |
Description to follow.
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| Copland Graphics and
Printing |
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| Copland OS Feedback
Forum |
Description to follow.
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| Copland Toolbox Feedback
Forum |
Description to follow.
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| Copland Developer
Relations Feedback Forum |
Description to follow.
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| Copland User Experience
Feedback Forum |
Description to follow.
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| System 7 Feedback
Forum |
Description to follow.
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| Finder Feedback Forum |
Description to follow.
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| Installation and Configuration
Feedback Forum |
Description to follow.
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| Mac Human Interface
Feedback Forum |
Description to follow.
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