Article:		Apple Releases Java 1.4.1 for Mac OS X
Subject:		Java3D?
Date:		2003-03-10 21:27:16
From:		fiftyvolts
Response to: Java3D?
I may sound like I am trying to start a flame war, but I will proceed anyway. Why oh why would you want to use Java for 3D. I love Java, I use it for applications, serverside apps, and even applets, but I draw the line at 3D. Java is great, but it does not have the raw efficency needed to make an awesome 3D engine. OpenGL and C (not even C++) is best suited for the needs of a hyper efficeint 3D engine.

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• Java3D?
  2003-03-11 09:54:12  Chris Adamson | [Reply | View]
  
  
  No need for a flame war, because you're apparently unaware that Java3D is basically just an abstraction layer for calls to OpenGL or DirectX. The application doesn't use Java2D or such for rendering - it's going to the hardware for rendering. Result: it's plenty fast.
  
  The fact that there isn't a slow all-Java fallback option (like, say, in the Java Media Framework) is why the original poster was asking about Java3D - any Java3D implementation *requires* native code to tie into OpenGL or DirectX on that platform, and there isn't a version for Mac OS X yet.
  
  This comes up on Apple's java-dev list a lot.
  
  -Chris (invalidname)