Jazz: An Extensible 2D+Zooming Graphics Toolkit in Java
Jazz: An Extensible 2D+Zooming Graphics Toolkit in Java
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1999-05-25
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Bederson, Benjamin B.
McAlister, Britt
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Abstract
Jazz is a new general-purpose toolkit that supports applications using zooming
object-oriented 2D graphics. It is built entirely in Java using Java2D, and
thus runs on all platforms that support Java 2. It supports zooming, internal
cameras, and lenses in a similar style to Pad++, but does so in a general
purpose manner without a specific focus on zooming. Jazz is primarily a
"scenegraph" for 2D graphics that is analogous to Sun's Java3D and SGI's
OpenInventor in their support for 3D scenegraphs. This paper describes
Jazz and discusses the issues of using a scenegraph for 2D graphics. We
discuss the Jazz architecture, and how applications can build on top of it.
Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-99-24