Actually, a developer from Apple came to the Sun booth at Siggraph
to take a look at the Xtivia Reality Server. He mentioned that he was
responsible for the J3D port and he was interested in looking at sample
J3D applications.
-isie
At 10:26 PM 9/6/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>At JavaOne, I spoke with some of the Java/OS X guys in the Apple booth. I
>commended them for including a modern JVM in OS X. Then I specifically
>asked if OS X was going to support Java3D, and he gave a definate yes. He
>said that they even had it running on a single machine at apple (sounded
>like they had to do some serious voodoo to get it to work). But then he
>reiterated that before they do Java3D they needed to get the rest of the
>stuff in OS X up to speed. I think the guy I spoke with also mentioned
>something about licencing costs or something...can't exactly remember.
>
>My take is that they are teetering on if they should support Java3D or not,
>given that they have not made any public announcements. I feel that it is
>important for us to let Apple know, in a kind but convincing way, that we
>would like to see Java3D on OS X. Maybe we need a slogan that says
>something to the effect of:
>
>"Apple: If you support Java3D in OS X, I'll buy a new Mac."
>
>I mean that literally myself.
>
>It would seem that Sun would also have an interest in this happening.
>Consider the alternative, MS is going to fight Sun all the way, whereas
>Apple is shipping JDK 1.3...just imagine what it would be like if an updated
>version of OS X had Java3D installed by default! It can happen.
>
>Who do we talk to? Who do we email and let them know?
>
>-------------------------------------------------
>Michael P. McCutcheon
>"Apple: If you support Java3D in OS X, I'll buy a new Mac."
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ted Halmrast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:08 AM
>Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] latest MacOSX news???
>
>
> > Yeah, this is a major issue for me as well. Anyone heard anything?
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jenkins, Todd (HOU) wrote:
> >
> > > Howdy.
> > >
> > > So what's the lastest news concerning Java3d on Mac OSX? Is there any
>news?
> > > Considering buying a G4 system to develop software, but I really need
>this
> > > API to be supported.
> > >
> > > Todd
> > >
> > >
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