JSR 189 timeline (AKA j3d 1.4)

Engines, Libraries and Tools Java 3D
#1

according to the official timeline found there:
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=189
,the current schedule of this JSR is as follows:
7/2002 - Approval of JSR
8/2002 - Formation of Expert Group
2/2003 - Submit Community Draft Specification
4/2003 - Submit Public Draft Specification
8/2003 - Submit Final Draft Specification, Reference Implementation, and TCK

So, we should have a draft accessible actually. Any hint on this ? Reading the list of improvements, they certainly have tons of work, but i’d really love to get infos on the release date of the draft. Anyone else interested?

#2

I think this is how far they have gotten:
Expert Group Formation 23 Jul, 2002
JSR Review Ballot 22 Jul, 2002

So no draft yet.

Damn I look forward to:

*  Programmable Shading
* Extensibility
* A Rendering Device Interface
* Access to the native context
* Geometry extensibility
* Extensible geometry processing algorithms
* Advanced Rendering Techniques
* Stencil buffer support
* Multipass rendering
* Render to texture
* Shadow map support
* Alternate depth tests
* Aditional blending operations
* Buffer storage hints
* Scene antialiasing hints
* Texture compression support

will be cool…

Regards
Nikolai

#3

JSR and timelines … hmmmmm :-[

#4

Anyone know what the above even means?

#5

Yeah, sure. A “Hint” is a setting the developer can use to recommend the compiler/runtime do something specific - they know something the compiler/runtime doesn’t.

Buffer storage hints could be about byte-alignment, packing, preferred memory to use, or something like that.

Scene antialiasing hints will be used to recommend how the renderer handles antialiasing - to switch between a fast but dirty approach or for a slow but precise approach probably.

#6

ok, thx

Regards
Nikolai