I think the thing most likely to kill Java3D deadest quickest is the continued lack of any official position on it from Sun while we discuss this question on every Java3D related forum. It would be good to hear an official statement of some sort, even if it is just to back up the rumours.
-----Original Message----- From: James Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 June 2003 21:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Is Java3D dead? Justin Couch wrote: > I would be. From what I've seen publically, nobody at Sun is working on > J3D any more. Kelvin, I believe is taking bug reports, but not doing any > bug fixes. Mark Hood is floating around but no idea what he's doing > these days, and that's it. There's nobody left. DougT isn't working on > J3D, and hasn't AFAIK for the last 12 months or so. There ain't nobody > else home in j3d land at Sun. Microsoft got rid of retained mode from DirectX9, and Sun may be getting rid of it for Java. If that is the case, then I would expect some people to step in and make some libraries to make 3D developed using JOGL easier, but it would be something that we would all have to learn. Such is life, basically. Sun has to do what may make the most sense financially, this is not an easy time for them, financially. -- "We do not lose our identity in our relations with others; in part, at least, we achieve our identity by those relations." Tony Blair, 1993 =========================================================================== 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".
