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RE: RIP Java 3D

I don't really see the significance of this announcement. There have been
many such java-to-OpenGL bindings developed in the recent past; in fact, Sun
just released their previous "official" binding at JavaOne :

http://jogl.dev.java.net/

Here's an older third-party one:

http://www.jausoft.com/products/gl4java/gl4java_main.html

and a lightweight version:

http://java-game-lib.sourceforge.net/

These are all wrappers for the native OpenGL libs on a host platform.

Java3D is a higher-level API, so it's not really the same as OpenGL. In
fact, on Windows, Java3D has two implementations, one on top of OpenGL, and
one on top of DirectX.

So this announcement doesn't really change much, I don't think...unless I'm
missing something. Am I?


Rob

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Cushing [mailto:email@hidden]
>Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 12:46 PM
>To: email@hidden
>Subject: RIP Java 3D
>
>
>How timely considering the recent thread:
>
>SGI and Sun Microsystems' Software Platforms to Work
>Seamlessly Together with Java Bindings to Opengl
>http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/july/sgisun_opengl.html
>
>Based on this, I wouldn't expect Apple to ever support Java
>3D, and I expect Sun to soon drop support as well. This
>should end one on going thread of discussion...
>
>...and surely start another.
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