Lesson6.Application Environments

Lesson 6. Application Environments

Time	This lesson takes approximately 1 hour to complete.
Goals	Install, run, and troubleshoot native Mac OS X applications
	Use Activity Monitor to monitor processes

An application environment consists of the libraries, library resources, application programming interfaces (APIs), and services that you need to run applications developed with those APIs. The application environments depend on the underlying layers of the system software: the core services (Quartz, OpenGL, QuickTime, and so on) and the core operating system (the kernel environment called Darwin).

In this lesson, you'll learn about the many application environments available to Mac OS X users. Those environments support programs created for present and past versions of Mac OS, as well as applications created for Java and UNIX environments.