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Java 3D API Jump-Start Paperback – August 9, 2001

by Aaron E. Walsh (Author),‎ Doug Gehringer (Author)

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3D development is difficult, but it is where the web is headed--and headed fast. Why? Because humans crave 3D experiences: we live in a 3D world, after all. Java 3D is an extension of Java, and is considered by many as the most likely 3D technology to succeed in the web development arena. This book is a relatively short (350 pages) introduction to Java 3D and its capabilities, as well as a guide to developers and programmers.

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Get started with Java 3D—today!

Master interactive 3D development for the desktop and the Web-now!
Learn Java 3D's powerful scene graph programming model
Covers every key component of the Java 3D API
Cutting edge Java 3D case studies: e-commerce, entertainment, engineering, and more

Interactive 3D for the desktop and Web. It's not the future. It's here today. Java 3D Jump-Start is your concise introduction to the 3D technology that delivers the most power with the least coding. In this hands-on guide, a world-renowned Web3D expert and a member of Sun's Java 3D engineering team unveil the Java 3D API, providing insider's insights and real code.

Discover how Java 3D unleashes a new generation of 3D programs for the desktop and the World Wide Web—and master all the skills you need to start building spectacular Java 3D applications and applets right now!

Real-world case studies: e-commerce, entertainment, data visualization, collaborative engineering, and beyond
How Java 3D compares with other graphics options
Java 3D's powerful scene graph programming model
High-level constructs for creating, loading, and manipulating 3D geometry
Appearances: describing color, texture, material reflection, and other characteristics of 3D objects
Java 3D tools for transformation, viewing, and picking

With Java 3D Jump-Start, Java and Web professionals can harness the full power of 3D computer graphics to create fully interactive and immersive 3D programs for the desktop and the Web. Not "someday." Today.

Foreword by Kevin Rushforth, Sun Microsystems, Java 3D Technical Lead.

Every Jump-Start book is:

AUTHORITATIVE, written by world-class experts personally involved with the design and development of that technology
FOCUSED, providing exactly what you need to know to get started immediately with a minimum of effort
PRACTICAL, teaching you the skills and techniques that you need to develop professional, real-world software applications

About the Author

AARON E. WALSH is Chairman of Mantis Development Corporation, a development firm specializing in advanced multimedia and network technologies. An active member of the Internet standards community, Walsh is Chairman of the Web3D Consortium's Universal Media technical working group, Chairman of the Web3D-MPEG group responsible for the convergence of Web3D and Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) technology, co-chair of the Web3D Intellectual Property Rights group, and Web3D Liaison to MPEG and the World Wide Web Consortium. An internationally best-selling technology author, he is author of the best-selling Core Web3D, MPEG-4 Jump-Start, and XHTML Example by Example (Prentice Hall PTR) and founding Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Web3D Series.

DOUG GEHRINGER is a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems and a member of the Java 3D Engineering Team. He has spent the past fourteen years at Sun working on graphics software, and has extensive experience programming for all of Sun's graphics APIs, including GKS, PHIGS, PEX, OpenGL, and Java 3D. A respected expert on graphics performance tuning for large-scale applications, he has worked on a number of the largest Java 3D projects in existence. One of the first developers in the world to use Java 3D, he co-authored the original Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) that is today maintained by the Web3D Consortium. An active member of the Java 3D community, Gehringer is Java 3D technical editor of the best-selling Core Web3D (Prentice Hall PTR) and author of the Java 3D Explorer companion application created exclusively for Java 3D Jump-Start readers.

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Series: Sun Microsystems Press Java Series
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (August 9, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0130340766
ISBN-13: 978-0130340764
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 8 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,396,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #2951 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Languages & Tools > Java
- #2996 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Software Design, Testing & Engineering > Object-Oriented Design

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Dirk L. van Krimpen

Trying your first 3D programs? Read the book and let it roll

February 17, 2002

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As a developer with a number of ideas all having to do with 3D applications, I was searching for more info on Java3D. I was not even sure if I should use Java for it. Although being a Dutchman, my business as an independent trainer and developer is in the high-tech German automotive and appliances industry. Training and educating young German engineers in development and manufacturing of new high quality products.
So, there I was, having lots of ideas but no real base to build on. What I had were some plain Java books, of course the Java Tutorial and the Java 3D API Specification. Especialy the latter gives lots of information and is an excellent source of 3D coding, however, it is not an easy guide for a starting programmer. Anyway, you know how it is, if you go into detail, you're coming across many difficulties and problems. It usually takes lots of times to find out where something like your problem is described. And even if you find something similar, it might be in a completely other context, or you have to go through long code lists just to find a part of the solution.
Then, searching the Amazone site, I came along a new book called the Java 3D API Jump Start. I finished it in two main sessions, I believe it were two long evenings all together. The main advantage to me in the first place was that it re-assured me, Java3D was the way to go. It very well describes the history of Java3D, the backgrounds and developments under way, and the outlook in the future. All backed up by many pictures, lots of them in full color.
It is, of course, a book for beginning 3D programmers. So, it brings you quickly up to speed. The way the book deals with the various topics is the following. It describes details you ever wanted to know about, gives some code lines just fot that particular option and refers to the API's or free available examples on the web, for the neighbouring code lines. Just to give you an idea of some of the topics, it descibes very thoroughly things like Geometry Arrays and Utilities. There are, for instance, full code samples of building geometric shapes, using advanced tools like the automatic triangulator and the normal generator. Also it describes very well topics like Indexed and Stripped Geometry Arrays. Some of the highlights of the book to me are the chapters on lighting, transformations and behaviours.
The book refers also to the Jump Start web-site where the interested reader can find example programs together with the source codes. So, the book gives you exactly what it promises, a jump start into Java3D. It not only helps you to build your first 3D programs, but it tells you also how things work and why they should be programmed in their particular way.
Now that I have read the book, do I still have questions? Yes, lots of them. But that's the way it should be. After you have your first shapes moving across your screen, you want more. You like to add all those nice little things you only know about, and of course, these are nowhere described. But now you have at least gained experience and increased your knowledge of Java3D, which makes it easier to find solutions elsewhere. And, hopefully the authors of this book Aaron E. Walsh and Doug Gehringer will make some efforts to write their next one on advanced Java3D programming.
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zijin

great!!

February 9, 2015

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

great book at a VERY low price came in good conditions (34.99$ for 59cents =^)

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cna83

Trés utile pour programmeurs Java

March 3, 2013

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Trés didactique donc nécessaire
Explique l'installation pas a pas, la structure et l'utilisation des API 3D
Evidemment la connaissance de l'anglais est obligatoire

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Donald Carpenter

I don't feel Jump-Started

September 19, 2001

Format: Paperback

I've been programming for 21 years, dabbling in graphics on and off throughout that period. I know enough about a lot of graphics API's to 'get the job done' with documentation help in hand and was looking for a book to get me to that point with Java 3D .
To it's credit, the book is well edited - it is not filled with the errors common to a first print. Not to say there aren't any, but they are few and far between. Also nice is the summary of URL's at the end of each chapter, I actually found that to be the most useful part of the book. Unfortunately, I have yet to be able to get to the books URL that promises 'nice example applications' throughout the book. It is obvious that the authors (Walsh and Gehringer) know Java 3D, they explain concepts in a straight forward easy to comprehend manner - even without the example code to back them up. The readability factor alone is why it gets 3 stars from me instead of 2.
To it's discredit, there is nothing here that isn't in the spec and in every other Java 3D book I've read. Reading it again doesn't further the understanding. I found Ready-to-Run Java 3D a little more useful than this book, but I didn't like it either (neither did most of it's reviewers). While I recognize that this book is titled 'Java 3D API Jump-Start' - I don't feel 'Jump-Started', just 'Briefed'. I expected more from Walsh, Gehringer and Sun Microsystems.
In short, if you don't understand the difference between geometry and textures, can't grasp the concept of behaviors and transforms from the Java 3D spec or never figured out the difference between ambient lighting and directional lighting then this book could help. If you understand those concepts in a general way, read the spec - you'll get more out of it. If you don't know what those are, then by all means - read this book.

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Breakfast

Good introduction, not reference material.

May 27, 2002

Format: Paperback

I have been programming with Java for a few years, but I've only just started to try and do some work with Java3D and this book provided a good introduction to the API. It really is a jump-start - introducing 3D concepts and the practicalities of implementing them in Java 3D without going into very much detail- sometimes a bit more would have been useful, but you could usually find what you needed in the API documentation. In fact, this almost acts as an index to that documentation- telling you that classes exist and how they relate to one another so that you can then look up the details of how to use them.
There is definitely room for a detailed book on Java 3D, which this certainly isn't, but if you are looking for a general introduction you can't go far wrong here.

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Amazon Customer

A letdown from the Java3D team

November 3, 2001

Format: Paperback

I am a 3d programmer for 3 years . I know the difference between directional lights and point lights, textures and mipmaps.
I had read the complete Java3d spec and the tutorial by Sun and was expecting a bit more in this book. Unfortunately it is a big letdown in terms of such expectations.
The book seems to have been written for a fresh programmer who doesnt have any knowledge of 3d concepts. There are also a few technical errors at the end in the PickTool class and OrbitBehavior class descriptions. Also Behavior concepts are not covered very well. If you have read the J3D specs and the tutorial by Dennis Bouvier, then there is no need to buy this book. If you are very fresh to 3d and in particular to Java3d
this book is a good introduction to the key concepts.

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