This sounds eerily like a few years ago when IBM decided to go after the corporate market with OS/2, turning their back on their base of SOHO users. (OS/who?).
I guess I need to investigate some alternatives for visualization using C++ or something. -Allan Ash Software Arts, Inc. - the Information Visualization Company www.infoviz.biz ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Barrilleaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 2:44 AM Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Java 3D, GL4Java, JOGL, GLUT > A major theme of the conference was that Java wanted to take back > the desktop, and that gaming was going to be a major part of > this. Out of curiosity I went to the graphics related sessions > and asked around a bit to see what was up. Here are my somewhat > fuzzy recollections... > > I thought it odd that Java 3D was not mentioned as a session > topic or a BOF. I asked Chris Kline how JOGL came about. He > said that gl4java was too hard to maintain and that a year ago he > and sun came to a mutual understanding that he should rewrite it > from scratch. I asked if there were plans for a scengraph API or > something. He intimated that something might be in the offing. > At one of the game sessions I asked the speaker (maybe it was > Doug T.) what was up with Java 3D. The answer was that it might > be a very long time before another release comes out. > > In my humble opinion it seems that Sun has decided it needs java > on the desktop. To do that it needs games on the desktop. To do > that it needs Jogl. As for java3d and what else may come, ask Sun. > > --jon > > > Well, what I found interesting is that the > > earlier versions of Direct3D were horrible, > > and that the later versions began looking > > awfully similar to OpenGL. So it wouldn't > > surprise me if Canvas3D, etc, looked more OGL > > friendly than DX. > > > > But then M$ never "borrows" ideas from others > > do they? > > > > Some of you folks that attended JavaOne, could > > you provide us less fortunate folks who could > > not attend some feedback, comments? > > > > Thanks, > > -DaveS > > > -- > __________________ JMB and Associates, Inc. ___________________ > Jon Barrilleaux 3800 Lake Shore Ave. Consulting for 3D, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oakland, CA 94610 Virtual and Web > 510.444.4370 www.jmbaai.com Applications > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
