For your info, I received news of an interesting framework for Java-2D which has zooming capabilities. Roger. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Bederson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Pad++ Announce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: October 1, 1999 7:51 PM Subject: ANNOUNCE: Jazz 0.6beta (Pad++ successor) >Hello Pad++ friends, > >It has been a long time since we have sent any mail about Pad++. >While we have not continued working on Pad++, the good news is >that we have been working hard for the past year on a successor >to Pad++ called Jazz. Jazz is now available (Version 0.6 beta) at: >http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/jazz/ > >Jazz is a 100% Java 2 platform for building Zoomable User Interfaces. >It supports all of the features that Pad++ does, but does so >in a much more open and extensible manner. While Pad++ was >designed to be a simple prototyping system, Jazz is designed >to be a serious system for reliable application development. > >Jazz is built on a "scenegraph" model that comes from the >world of 3D graphics. It supports embedded Swing widgets, >multiple cameras, internal cameras (i.e., portals and lenses), >extensible internal structure, running as an applet, and more. >Jazz was recently featured on Sun's Java web site at: >http://java.sun.com/features/1999/09/bederson.html > >The best news is that Jazz is completely Open Source. We are >not making any proprietary claims. We hope that a community >of developers and users will develop, and this will be the >base of a software platform that many people will use and >benefit from. > >Note that this list will not be used anymore, and so please >do not send requests to be removed from it. If you would like >to hear further announcements about Jazz, please register and >add yourself to the Jazz mailing lists at: >http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/jazz/download/register.shtml > >If you'd like to discuss Jazz with a small but growing community, >send mail to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - Ben > >+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ >| Prof. Ben Bederson Computer Science Department | >| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) | >| www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson 3171 A.V. Williams Building | >| (301) 405-2764 University of Maryland | >| (301) 405-6707 (FAX) College Park, MD 20742 | >+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
