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
One thing you could try is to read the SVG in as Java2D shapes and then
try to convert the 2D path shapes to 3D ones.
I've written a light weight SVG parser which will soon be uploaded to
https://svgsalamander.dev.java.net/. Currently you can find it at
http://www.kitfox.com/salamander/index.html
