I believe that Sun are doing a marvelous job on J2D as of late, but what I would like the most is to disjoin J2D with AWT.
What I’m saying is that you can still render AWT/Swing apps using Java2D but also allow people to use J2D without AWT/Swing, maybe like the way OpenGL creates a window, it’s very cheap and would definitely reduce my code base down quite a bit?