Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Jungle: OpenGL for the Java Platform - savannah.nongnu.org

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,

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Regards,
Jaime

On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:30:00PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Kenneth Russell <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: mbsd
> Other License: 
> Package: Jungle: OpenGL for the Java Platform
> System name: jungle
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> We are developing a Java programming language binding to the OpenGL 3D 
> graphics library.
> 
> There are currently a few such bindings available: GL4Java and LWJGL are the 
> most prominent. (I am personally one of the maintainers of GL4Java, which is 
> hosted at sourceforge.net.) My colleagues and I have developed a new binding 
> to address some of the shortcomings of GL4Java:
> 
>  - Ease of maintenance. GL4Java has a very complicated build structure and a 
> lot of legacy code for backward compatibility. Making changes to the GL4Java 
> source base is extremely difficult even for seasoned developers.
> 
>  - Ease of porting. GL4Java depends on a significant amount of hand-written C 
> code; bugs in this code are much more difficult to track down than analogous 
> bugs in Java code, which tend to generate exceptions with backtraces. Our new 
> binding is written almost completely in Java, with all but 50 lines of its C 
> code produced with a glue code generator.
> 
>  - Features. We want to have access to the latest features of OpenGL that are 
> supported by the current set of graphics cards. When we considered the option 
> of adding these features to GL4Java, it was easier to start from scratch.
> 
> We don\'t currently have the source code on a public server but intend to 
> release under the modified BSD license and do not have external dependencies 
> on non-free software.
> 
> 
> Other Software Required:
> Depends on a Java environment that supports the AWT at a minimum.
> 
> Depends on ANTLR (http://antlr.org/), a public domain parser generator.