This is FANTASTIC news! Thanks Blackdown and Sun!
Ted Halmrast
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On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Subra Mohan wrote:
>
> Sun issued the press release (appended below) regarding the licensing of its
> leading Java Media technologies including Java 3D, Java Media Framework, Java
> Advanced Imaging and Java Sound to the Linux Blackdown Porting team, yesterday
> at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. This agreement enables the Linux community
> to develop and distribute media-enhanced applications for the Java 2 platform
> for non-commercial use. The Blackdown team will serve as a conduit to bring
> these Java Media APIs to the entire Linux community.
>
> The license was signed on Thursday, February 25, and we had Java 3D up and
> running on a Wintel laptop running Linux on Monday, March 2nd. This is once
> again a demonstration of the portability of Java 3D on any platform running Java
> 2. If you happen to be attending the LinuxWorld Expo, do stop by the Sun booth,
> to see Java 3D in action on Linux.
>
> /Subra
>
>
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> Subra Mohan
> Java 3D Marketing
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> (650)786-5863, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>
> Tuesday March 2, 5:42 pm Eastern Time
>
> Company Press Release
>
> SOURCE: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
> Sun to Deliver Power of Java Media Technologies to Linux Platform
>
> Cutting-Edge Java Media Technologies Will Enable Linux Users to Develop
> Media-Enhanced Applications for Multiple
> Platforms
>
> LINUXWORLD, SAN JOSE, Calif., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Microsystems,
> Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW - news) today announced that it has licensed its
> leading Java (TM) Media technologies to the Linux Blackdown Porting
> Team, an informal group of Linux developers. The licensing agreement
> delivers the inherent strengths of the Java programming environment to
> Linux users and includes the following Sun (TM) application programming
> interfaces (APIs): Java 3D (TM) API, Java Media Framework API, Java
> Advanced Imaging API and Java Sound API. This agreement enables the
> Linux community to develop and distribute media-enhanced applications
> for the Java 2 platform for non-commercial use. For the first time,
> Linux developers will be able to create platform-independent,
> network-centric applications for educational, business and technical
> users with the easy-to-use Java Media APIs.
>
> ``Adding Java Media APIs to the Linux arsenal gives developers an
> exciting new platform for exploring a wide range of visually and
> aurally engaging media -- from 3D, to multimedia, to sound,'' says
> Steve Byrne, Linux Blackdown Porting Team Leader. ``This brings
> together many disparate pieces of the puzzle -- Linux, Java, 3D
> graphics and multimedia - to form a major bridge to the rapidly
> expanding Linux developer community.''
>
> By licensing several of Sun's Java Media technologies, the Blackdown
> team will serve as a conduit to bring these tools to the entire Linux
> community. Linux users will now be able to quickly and easily
> incorporate 3D graphics, 2D imaging and multimedia data -- including
> stored or streaming audio, video, MIDI -- into their applications.
> Because these APIs are built using Java technology's ``Write Once, Run
> Anywhere (TM)'' philosophy, media-enhanced applications developed using
> the APIs are able to run on multiple platforms, which dramatically
> reduces application development time and costs.
>
> ``Our agreement to provide this type of support for Linux is just
> another example of Sun's commitment to fostering technical innovation.
> Sun intends to enable a new generation of platform-neutral development
> activity by putting these Java Media technologies in the hands of Linux
> users,'' said Jon Kannegaard, vice president and general manager of the
> Java Platform at Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s Java Software.
>
> The Java Media APIs that will be available to the Linux community
> include:
>
> * Java 3D API
>
> The Java 3D API provides an object-oriented interface for applications
> that require high performance, interactive 3D graphics. The Java 3D
> API's scene graph-based programming model provides a simple and
> flexible mechanism for representing and rendering potentially complex
> 3D environments. The Java 3D API optimizes the scene and handles the
> low-level rendering details to provide the best possible performance.
>
> * Java Media Framework API
>
> The Java Media Framework API is a collection of classes that enable the
> display and capture of multimedia data within applets and applications
> written in the Java programming language. The Java Media Framework
> allows developers to incorporate audio and video of various media
> formats -- including QuickTime, MPEG and AVI -- into their
> cross-platform applets and applications.
>
> * Java Advanced Imaging API
>
> The Java Advanced Imaging API incorporates performance-oriented
> features such as tiling, deferred execution, optimization of combined
> operations, resolution-independent image-processing, multi-threading
> and support for multi-dimensional, multi-banded image data types.
>
> * Java Sound API
>
> The Java Sound API delivers consistent, reliable, high-quality sound
> for Java platform applications by providing low-level support for audio
> operations such as audio mixing, audio capture, MIDI sequencing and
> MIDI synthesis. The Java Sound API allows developers to enhance their
> applets and applications with high-quality music and sound.
>
> About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
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>
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>
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