What would be good is if someone managed to create a Flash Java player, and within the Java player, he accelerated the drawing of stuff using OGL…
Now theres a project for you to mumble with!
DP
Someone’s already done a Java Flash player, and if it uses Java2D and Mustang, it’ll be GL accelerated, too.
Cas 
I’ll stay at my opinion, that you can’t compare that. If there’s someone, who still things Flash is “more powerfull”, take this:
http://www.demicron.com/gallery/ ;D
Watch the clocks, pure Java, amazing.
wow, have you seen the art galery?
how could they possibly do that? :o
[quote]Someone’s already done a Java Flash player, and if it uses Java2D and Mustang, it’ll be GL accelerated, too.
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Someone did? Do you have a link to that implementation? I googled for it but couldn’t find anything usefull besides marcomedia’s own java api which shipped until flash 5.0 (but which doesn’t support anything above flash 2.0)
[quote]wow, have you seen the art galery?
how could they possibly do that? Shocked
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Yes im wondering how they managed that too, its one nice software renderer! I remember seeing a quite similar product a while ago: http://www.holomatix.com
The image quality is also striking similar…
Here is one that let’s you control the flash plugin
http://www.javaapis.com/jflashplayer/
This on is an applet that plays Flash 2 files, very limited.
http://www.flashcentral.com/Tech/Detect/FlashJava.htm
do a google search for
java flash player
For me the Java Flash Player stops at 50% of the animation (hangs at zoomed letter filling the screen). The ActiveX version plays just fine.
While we’re comparing Java to Flash I would like to ask what’s better, OpenGL or 3D Studio Max?
Seriously guys, Java is a full blown language and not a piece fo software that is only suited towards 2D animations.
Java2D is just in a poor state, why in the living hell would someone want to replace Flash with Java2D?
It’s like having a coder asking his manager to code a database system.
Artists are not programmers and programmers are not artists.
[quote]Artists are not programmers and programmers are not artists.
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What!?! Code IS an art!
And if you think that coders/programmers are NO artists, have a look on whats showing on the demo-scene.
Cheers!