Roland,
At 16:21 07.08.00 +0200, you wrote:
>3. and the most important question for me at the moment is, what IDE could I
>use that supports Java 3d development ?
I don't develop under Linux (yet) so I have no solid experience to back
this up.
But my experience with Windows-based IDEs indicates that if the IDE supports
Java 2, then there should be no problem with Java 3D. I am currently doing 3D
work using Kawa 3, the "simple but powerful IDE", and Visual Cafe 3, Database
Edition.
Like some other IDEs, Kawa can be configured around a variety of JDKs. I
pointed its directories at my Java 2 (1.3, I think) directory and that's
all it took.
Having installed the Java 3D SDK in the same place as the Java 2 JDK, the
3 or 4 .JARs that come with Java 3D simply go in the JRE/lib/ext subdirectory,
where the Java compiler and JVM find them by default.
My Visual Cafe is more than a year old and was shipped with (I think) JDK
1.3 or so. It, too, lets you configure the JDK it works with, though the
process
is not as painless as I would have liked. Now I can compile and run Java 2
programs but I can't debug them (my own fault, I'm sure).
On the Linux front, Sun offers their "FORTE for Java, Community Edition" free
of charge - the price is hard to beat. I tried it when it was still called
NetBeans
Developer and found it a bit sluggish on my 128 MB, 300 Mhz machine. But
it's a very lovingly crafted product with a lot of nifty details. Sun says
that it runs
best with JDK 1.3, but for Linux they recommend either Blackdown or Sun
JDK 1.2.2 . On the Blackdown port, they say to use "green threads" and to
avoid using the JIT. See
http://www.sun.com/forte/ffj/ce/documentation/jvms.html
for details.
Hth,
-Carl-
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