I don't think we can talk of small experience. Its maintainer is known for precipitation and walk back decision. He once lobbied (strongly) for a lwjgl hook in JOGL and declared a week after that it would finally not be necessary. He commonly rants about slowness of other projects and does underestimate the advantages of thinking to a problem for some time. Nevertheless, he's a valuable person and his projects show he has some great capabilities. LWJGL seems to achieve its goals, but due to its maintainer's 'volatility' i was reluctant to use it.
J3D, on its side is being starting a nice second life. it is actually well followed by sun, all sources are available and planned features promise gooood things. Let's see if promises turn out into real things. > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 14:09:08 +0100, Ben Moxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is also LWJGL which does something similar but doesn't rely on AWT. > > In my opinion the biggest disadvantage of LWJGL is the small experience of > the maintainers of this project. Don't misunderstand me, the work they are > doing might be good, but if somebody re-introduces a mechanism which > realizes direct memory access and pointers, there is some basic > understanding about Java missing. OK, they found out that this was a > mistake and removed this mechanism, but I'd afraid that this project could > contain more basic problems in its architecture. > > -- > http://www.linuxboard.org - The Linux Developer Board > http://java3d.virtualworlds.de - The J3D Developers Ressource > > =========================================================================== > 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".
