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Re: platforms

Posted by gouessej on May 10, 2012; 11:06am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/platforms-tp3973725p3976773.html

Hi

At first, this project has been abandoned by Oracle / Sun Microsystems several years ago, it is anew a community project.

Secondly, Java3D has been revived by some enthusiasts and I contributed in its port to JOGL 2.0.

Finally, JOGL cannot die, it is largely used especially in non gaming applications, in scientific visualization. It is actively maintained. Sven, Rami, Wade, ... have done a great job, we get lots of feedbacks, it's really nice. JOGL has been subjected to FUD campaigns (by a few supporters of our competitor) whereas we don't need Oracle support and our competitor should look at its own limitations (no real multi display support, a separated branch with low maintainance for OpenGL-ES, some important bugs especially under GNU Linux, no bug tracker, ...) instead of bothering us (even though generally its developers are friendly, only a few are hostile).
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