[jbarrett]

I was hoping for Java 3D for OSX ....
I did not expect to see it, but I just wanted to get information on when it may be done if ever. Is it even on the plan? What is the plan?

I have yet to see an announcement for the future of the optional packages. I did see that they already implemented one. (RMI-IIOP) I also see that some of the packages are written all in Java, and thus should work on OSX. (JavaHelp, InfoBus)

Also, will the OSX jdk ever be available for download at the javasoft site?
Marketing people are easily impressed by little things like that. ;-)

ref:
http://www.javasoft.com/products/OV_stdExt.html

[AirSluf]

Download the Linux PPC version linked via the java.sun java3d page:

ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/deve...pc-sdk.tar.bz2

I had to manually move the expanded files into the correct directories in the terminal as root, the Linux installer wouldn't run. I get correct compiles and execution of classes containing java3d classes (mostly I am using vecmath) so I am happy. I do have to do all the command line stuff as root though, haven't seen yet if there is a way to avoid that or not.

[This message has been edited by AirSluf (edited 04-12-2001).]

[AndyDuncan]

I have downloaded and installed the Java 3d libraries for linux ppc. I get correct compiles, however when running apps (such as the demos) I get the following error from the linker:

ljava.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no J3D in java.library.path
...

it appears the linker can't find the *.so files that were installed in /Library/Java/Home/lib/ppc/ some sites I have found that to fix the error you should update your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to contain that directory. This doesn't seem to work, and the installation instructions for the linux distribution states that this is not necessary. Does the ljava on OSX look somewhere other than $LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Has anyone gotten the demos to run on OSX? Did i put these files in the wrong directory?