[590] in java-interest
Graphic low-level access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Francois BOUSSARD)
Wed Jul 5 13:28:23 1995
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 95 12:14:32 0200
From: Francois BOUSSARD <francois@coplanet.fr>
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
How writing things like these with java WITHOUT native - and hardware
dependent - code :
- viewer VRML : painting pixels one by one
- viewer for vectorial graphic files
- computing real-time animation on clients
- etc
Will the Java Project implements basic access to graphic devices such as
putpoint(), fill_region(), circle, polyline, set_fill_frame, scrollup,
....
Why such needs ? :
Here at Coplanet, in france, we plane that your Java langage will be THE
revolution of Web. In 1997, most of the web clients will be Pentium and
PowerPc computers. So, everything is possible to do with such power.
Imagine 3D real-time shared universes on PC !
Whatever we can do on off-line PCs could be shared through Internet ...
And the poor of network performance can be hided by intense computing on
clients..
So why such needs : only for re-writing everything existing now in Java for
being completly computer-independant.
There, we need :
- low-level and high performance graphic access : not done
- complete file access : done
- high-level data-base access : not done
- high-level windowing and GUI tools : done
- high-level network protocols access : done (what about SNMP ?)
- low-level network-access :
- Sockets : done
- LanMan & Netware protocols : not done
- high-level distributed computing tools (RPC, DCE, CORBA..): not done
- low-level system standard access : partially
- high-level multimedia tools (audio, video...) : partially
Of courses these woks don't have to be done ONLY by Sun, but give us the
low-level access abstracton classes, and Internet users will do the high-level
tools.
If java gives us a standard for low-level works, everything is possible to
imagine on this base.
Well, there's work to do !
(humm, sorry for my english writting :-).
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FRANCE fb@coplanet.fr
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