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From: RegalFireball on 31 May 2010 07:32
Hi,

Wondering if anyone has successfully used Sun's 2D scene graph library
'scenario' for rendering and interacting with navigational maps? How
do I integrate a viewport and a JSGPanel to allow the user to scroll
around a map? 3D libraries usually offer viewport functionality but it
seems 'scenario' does not?

Thanks.
From: Jeff Higgins on 31 May 2010 15:40
On 5/31/2010 7:32 AM, RegalFireball wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wondering if anyone has successfully used Sun's 2D scene graph library
> 'scenario' for rendering and interacting with navigational maps? How
> do I integrate a viewport and a JSGPanel to allow the user to scroll
> around a map? 3D libraries usually offer viewport functionality but it
> seems 'scenario' does not?
>
> Thanks.

The contents of the com.sun.scenario packages seem a little low level
for "rendering and interacting with navigational maps", that is if my
concept of navigational map is the same as yours. Have you looked at any
higher level tools for this job? A search on java+gis brings a good bit
of info on established Java GIS frameworks.


From: RegalFireball on 31 May 2010 18:41
On Jun 1, 5:40 am, Jeff Higgins <oohigg...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 5/31/2010 7:32 AM, RegalFireball wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Wondering if anyone has successfully used Sun's 2D scene graph library
> > 'scenario' for rendering and interacting with navigational maps? How
> > do I integrate a viewport and a JSGPanel to allow the user to scroll
> > around a map? 3D libraries usually offer viewport functionality but it
> > seems 'scenario' does not?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> The contents of the com.sun.scenario packages seem a little low level
> for "rendering and interacting with navigational maps", that is if my
> concept of navigational map is the same as yours. Have you looked at any
> higher level tools for this job? A search on java+gis brings a good bit
> of info on established Java GIS frameworks.

Jeff,

I feel that the existing Java GIS libraries such as GeoTools and
OpenMap are too heavy for my needs. I'm interested in marine
navigation and there is currently no open source libraries that
support marine file formats. Basically, I'm just looking for a well
implemented 2D scene graph framework.

It seems the options are either the 'scenario' library or 'Piccolo2D'.

However it's impossible to tell if Sun's 'scenario' library is even
under current development - it seemed to stall 2 years ago at version
0.6. And it's also impossible to tell if the 'scenario' library is
designed for use in desktop applications or merely as a component of
JavaFX.

'Piccolo2D' seems to offer many of the features I require but looks to
have stalled on the Java platform.

Anyone have any feedback?

Lindsay
From: Jeff Higgins on 4 Jun 2010 22:10
On 5/31/2010 7:32 AM, RegalFireball wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wondering if anyone has successfully used Sun's 2D scene graph library
> 'scenario' for rendering and interacting with navigational maps? How
> do I integrate a viewport and a JSGPanel to allow the user to scroll
> around a map? 3D libraries usually offer viewport functionality but it
> seems 'scenario' does not?
>
> Thanks.
<http://www.jgraph.com/jgraph.html>

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