Justin, What are you moving your customers to place of Java3D?
Thanks also for the great background info! -RJ Justin Couch wrote: > Robert Jacobsen wrote: > > > Being a new member of this list, this is pretty disheartening news, to say the > > least. > > > > On the other hand, this could be an opportunity for the Open Source community > > to lend a hand, working with the folks from Sun who are knowledgeable about > > the 3D packages and go beyond 1.4. > > We have been trying for about the last 6 months from when we first heard > of its demise. Suffice to say that Sun internally are being very > schizophrenic about it. Everyone you talk to there has something > different to say about who owns the code, or pointing out that the > person claiming it really doesn't own it etc. Right now, everyone and > nobody owns the code and I can guarantee you that it won't be seeing the > light of day for 12 months at least, and I'd lay very good money that > you'll never see any code, nor any further development. There's a few > people internally within Sun that don't want to see it released in any > form due to "job security". We've given up because it's pointless doing > anything. The apple release was a blip on the radar paid for by Apple so > they could secure a large contract. Don't expect to see much more done > on it apart from a final release and it is not a sign that Sun are back > actively developing Java3D. > > We're actively moving our customers away from Java3D, sun is doing the > same internally. If you try to mention a project using Java3D, you get > canned very quickly. They only want to know about JOGL projects. The > politics is pretty nasty behind it right now and we're getting shafted > by Sun more than anyone about this. For years we've been trying to help > them out to promote it, doing projects with it etc, now all we get are > really oddball emails from them and being told "you're not kewl enough > anymore". > > This is really disappointing and right now I have little faith in > anything to do with Sun and 3D graphics, particularly if Java is > involved. BTW, did you know that SGI have declined to join the OpenGL > Java bindings working group? Pretty sad state of affairs if you consider > all the hoopla that the original announcement had. > > -- > Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ > Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ > Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. > Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism > processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with > all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." > - Greg Bear, Slant > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > =========================================================================== > 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".
