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Re: Where/how to start in 2012?

Posted by gouessej on Mar 06, 2012; 9:15am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Where-how-to-start-in-2012-tp3802984p3803084.html

Hi

You can mix the latest "revived" version of Java3D with JOGL 2.0 but the old versions of Java3D only uses JOGL 1 on Mac, there could be some conflicts if you mix JOGL with Direct3D , for example when using an old version of Java3D under Windows.

We cannot force webmasters to switch to JOGL 2.0, we cannot force them to update their tutorials. I haven't had any reply of some French webmasters for years, one of them still gives a very bad advise consisting in putting all JARs into the VM. Anyway, you use a modern IDE and fixing some code using JOGL 1 in order to make it work with JOGL 2 is not very difficult.

I assume you only want us to point you in the right direction but asking us to tell you whether you should switch to the set of APIs of our main competitor is a bit silly because the answer is obvious for me: NO, JogAmp is better, JOGL is not dead. All projects that switched to our competitors have much problems despite of their biaised feedbacks: black screen, wrong resolution reported for the first monitor when 2 monitors are plugged, straight lines in the task bar and in the whole desktop when leaving the full screen mode under KDE 3, crash with some NVIDIA graphics drivers when used with OpenJDK (only workaround: install the Windows version of the application with Wine, not that good), ...
Of course, we have some bugs too but we have a real bug tracker and we don't hide ours behind the carpet.

Maybe have a look at Jzy3d, it contains some features that might be interesting for you including build-in axes. It relies on JOGL 2.0.

Edit.: I dare to speak about our competitor not only with sweet words because I really know it. I have used JOGL since 2006. I made this decision because at this time its competitor was just giving me a blue screen of the death under Windows with some crappy VIA chips whereas JOGL works fine. The next major version of the API of our competitor will have almost the same features than the latest release candidate of JogAmp but JogAmp is still more reliable.
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