Posted by gouessej on Apr 15, 2017; 12:19pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Question-about-applying-Textures-with-or-without-a-Material-in-Java3D-tp4037864p4037877.html

Harvey removed some classes used for backward compatibility with Java < 1.4, Harvey removed Nvidia Cg support, I removed the native pipelines not based on JOGL, Harvey fixed numerous bugs and limitations, some contributors including August and Emmanuel helped to fix some bugs too, I fixed a few bugs in JOGL 2 that were causing some troubles in Java3D. Yes, we'll have to provide release notes...

I don't understand your second paragraph. Each scenegraph API, framework or engine provides its own importer and exporter for various 3D model file formats and you can write your own ones.