As part of the refocusing of j3d.org into new directions, one of the more obvious issues is that a lot of the j3d.org codebase is dependent on Java3D. However, part of the initial design was to maintain as much separation between basic functionality which could be used with any rendering API and the bits that explicity require Java3D.
Luckily we went that way, because now we're having to move in that direction only. So, last Friday I did a complete dump of everything on my machine into CVS, whether it compiles or not, complete or not, in preparation for the reorganisation. So that there's a permanent archive of the existing code, I took it all, made a ZIP file of both the source and compiled code and placed it on the code.j3d.org website here:
http://code.j3d.org/download.html
under the development release section.
From today, I'll be taking the existing code and breaking it up into a number of subsections: those that are renderer-independent and those that are dependent. Mostly this will be simple package changes, though there will be a couple of significant structural changes (ROAM and particle systems being two that I can think off immediately). There will be subtle reorganisations of other parts too, such as the file loaders to keep the basic parsing code in one package and the Java3D Loader implementation in the J3D-specific section.
Once again, I'll take the oppourtunity to suggest that if you would like to contribute code, please get in contact with me. The main license is LGPL, but there are parts of the codebase under less restrictive licensing, such as the BSD v2 license. Code quality requirements are fairly high in order to maintain the integrity of the codebase (full javadoc documentation, commandline-capable compiling etc).
Alternatively, j3d.org is happy to act as a home for other independent 3D Java projects. If you need websites, CVS, mailing lists etc, please contact me and I'll set it up.
-- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." - Greg Bear, Slant -------------------------------------------------------------------
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