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AOL's Open Xdrive provides users with 5GB of free online storage. This article discusses the development of the Cocoa Open Xdrive framework, that allows Mac developers to integrate access within their Cocoa applications.

Last week, I began my exploration of the Open Xdrive platform on Mac OS X, with the development of the Open Xdrive Usage Meter Dashboard widget. In the coming weeks I will continue to add functionality to that widget – however this week I begin development of a Cocoa Framework to access Open Xdrive natively in Mac applications.

Cocoa is Apple's preferred framework for the development native GUI applications. The Cocoa framework traces it roots back to NextStep – the operating system used by NeXT computers. (NeXT was founded by Steve Jobs when he left Apple in 1985). Programming in the Cocoa framework is done in Objective-C. Similar to C++, Objective-C is an extension to the C programming language, that provides objected oriented functionality.