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Re: Where is the latest version of Java3D

Posted by Sven Gothel on Jan 29, 2020; 1:07pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Where-is-the-latest-version-of-Java3D-tp4040278p4040307.html

On 1/29/20 6:42 AM, philjord [via jogamp] wrote:

> Sven,
> I agree heartily with your thoughts on being able to build by finding
> dependencies and understanding what version is where and what's being used.
>
> I've always built Java3D this way until recently.
>
> In the Android world it seems almost all development is aggressively based
> around gradle.build managing all dependencies for a developer, such that no
> one would use a library if it wasn't published on something like maven central.
>
> In truth it seems the modern "framework development"world would like to hide
> all implementation details from the "developer", no one needs to know anything
> other than the magical string incantations that make magic happen, Android
> layouts work only via trial and error, you can never simply understand what's
> required.

Amen indeed.

>
> So I'm pushing down the path of full mavenisation for Javas3D, not because I
> like it or want to, but because the target user audience I'd like to appeal to
> (Android developers and eventually iOS) demand it.

Yes, sure - we need to serve them as well - regardless.

~Sven