Games Programming with Java and Java 3D
On the download page
(http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/download.html) there is a choice
between different platforms and OpenGL/DirectX; the OpenGL version is reportedly
more stable than the DirectX implementation. While on the download page, the
"implementation documentation" should be retrieved: it describes both the core API
and the utility classes.
When Java 3D is installed, various JAR files (and DLLs in the Windows version) are
added to the Java SDK, in subdirectories jrelibext and jrebin. The JRE, typically
located in "C:Program FilesJavaj2re", is also updated.
A java3d folder, containing about 40 small-to-medium examples, is added to the
demo subdirectory of the Java SDK. They are a great help, but somewhat lacking in
documentation, and some of them need rewriting to use more recent features of Java
3D and the utility classes.
The Java 3D tutorial is available online at http://java.sun.com/products/java-