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  4. Presentations
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  7. Location of Java 3D documentation (including the Utility classes)

Return to the main FAQ page for more questions and answers.

 

1. Official FAQ

The current open development project has a wiki page that is slowly adding useful information.

An older Sun-maintained official Java 3D FAQ, is available from http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/forDevelopers/java3dfaq.html. However, you'd be better off looking over at the java.net site now for more up to date info.

 

2. Other Java FAQs

The Java Programmers FAQ maintained by Peter van der Linden is a great resource for Java programming in general.

jGuru maintains a growing collection of community driven FAQs at http://www.jguru.org/faq/. If you don't find the answer there, you can always ask. In particular, Bill Day runs the Java Media APIs FAQ that includes quite a number of questions on Java 3D.

Another interesting site is the Java Infrequently Asked Questions

 

3. Mailing lists and newsgroups

For many years, the java3d-interest list at java.sun.com has been the main home for those of us interested in Java3D development. Now that Java3D is part of the java.net area, which has it's own lists and forums, it is time for us to move. At the request of Kevin Rushforth, the Sun guy in charge of J3D these days, we're asking everyone to move to the new lists.

The new lists and forum signup can be found at this java.net page. The homepage for the new Java3D efforts there is https://java3d.dev.java.net/

A complete archive of the old java3d-interest mailing list is available from: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/java3d-interest.html.

The USENET newsgroup comp.lang.java.3d also provides a resource for further information.

Sun has two developer forums as part of the Javasoft site. These are for Java 3D and the general Java Media Framework.

 

4. Presentations

The following are Java 3D presentations that are available online.

 

5. Tutorials

The Java 3D Tutorial available from Sun, complete with examples! There is a french translation of the tutorial at http://www.latelier-virtuel.com/2armel/tutj3d

You'll need the Adobe Acrobat display program to view it.

Java 3D Tutorials

The following general 3D tutorials are available:

 

6. Articles

Javaworlds Introduction to 3D Graphics programming. Series of the articles introducing the various 3D programming APIs available in java.

 

7. Location of Java 3D documentation (including the Utility classes)

The Java 3D 1.4 API documentation is available via the following links:

The older Java 3D 1.3 API documentation is available via the following links:

Note that these documents refer only to the core Java 3D packages javax.media.j3d and javax.vecmath. They do not include the utility classes that come with the standard Sun implementation. These are what you get when you select the "Java 3D 1.1 API Specification" from the Java 3D home page.

To get the full documentation for the Utility Classes (com.sun.j3d) select the "Java 3D 1.3 Implementation" option from the download section at: http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/download.html

Emmanuel Pirsch has converted the Java 3D 1.1 documentation to WinHelp format. You can find it on the Javatips Home Page in the documentation section.

 

 
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