Using solaris2.7 on sun boxes that do not have OpenGL graphic cards
is far superior to using MESA. Sun's software-GL is well written
and worth the upgrade.

The Java3D installation lacks a crucial hint though - it took me quite
a while to figure out that the infamous
'cant find J3D in java.library.path' error message can only be made
to disappear by adding the OpenGL library path /usr/openwin/lib to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH  (one would think that that's in there already!)

so setting

LD_LIBRARY_PATH = $JDKHOME/jre/lib/sparc:/usr/openwin/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

does the job (JDKHOME is whatever directory you have java reside in,
usually /usr/java).


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