Treffer: Jabiru: Harnessing Java 3D Behaviors for Device and Display Portability.

The article discusses Jabiru, which is a package of interaction tools to enhance Java 3D application usability in an immersive CAVE environment via Java 3D's ConfiguredUniverse. Developers of conventional 3D graphics in OpenGL have an enormous wealth of VR toolkits, development tools and drag-and-drop 3D graphics creation applications available to them. There are a variety of choices of additional development toolkits supporting portability between different operating systems or visualization environments. Java 3D, as an extension package of Java, has several advantages over some of the more traditional resources. These include ease of Web accessibility, operating system independence, ease of use and ease of learning, so suitable for both the novice and the expert. The scene graph representation of 3D entities is a key feature of Java 3D that Jabiru uses extensively. One major component of Jabiru is a collection of ViewPlatformBehaviors. The base class for Jabiru is the MenuBehavior class, which extends the ViewPlatformBehavior class.