Re: JOGL and VisAD

• To: Bill Hibbard <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Donald.W.Denbo@xxxxxxxx"
• Subject: Re: JOGL and VisAD
• From: John Osborne <John.Osborne@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 09:46:32 -0700

Bill:

Has Sun announced that Java3D will be opensourced? Would there be any
advantages to using something like JOGL or the "announceware" from Sun
and SGI over Java3D? That is, can a case be made that a $100K investment
would benefit more than just Mac OS X users?

oz


----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Hibbard <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2003 3:58 pm
Subject: Re: JOGL and VisAD

> Hi John,
> 
> I am CC'ing visad-list since this question is probably
> interesting to others. I think there will be a port of
> Java3D to OS X, perhaps by Java3D simply becoming open
> source.
> 
> If that doesn't happen, we will look for a Java binding
> for OpenGL that transcends the "flavor of the year" that
> we have seen with GL4Java, JOGL and others. Perhaps it
> will be the binding that Sun and SGI announced they are
> working on, or perhaps it will be JOGL.
> 
> If we do create a VisAD adapter for this, parallel to
> the visad.java3d package. I estimate it will take half
> a person year. Anyone have a spare US$100K to fund it?
> 
> Cheers,
> Bill
> 
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, John Osborne wrote:
> 
> > Bill:
> >
> > Do you have any plans to support/redo a version of VisAD that 
> works with
> > JOGL (https://jogl.dev.java.net/)? As you know, Mac OS X does 
> not have a
> > Java3D implementation but supposedly supports JOGL. I think 
> there is
> > very little chance that Apple will do a Java3D port (according 
> to a
> > conversation I had with their Java technology manager a few 
> weeks ago).
> > To be honest, I'm not even sure JOGL could be used in place of 
> Java3D> but the very same manager at Apple claimed JOGL is the up 
> and coming
> > thing and Java3D has essentially been "end-of-lifed" at Sun. 
> What's your
> > take on this? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > oz
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 

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