JAI Has Launched Into Community Development
I have been getting a some requests to expand upon why Java is a great platform for programming CMT machines - as I alluded to in my last entry. I promise I will get to that next week. Today I want to talk about JAI.
Today we launched the JAI and imageio community development sites. This follows exactly what we did last year with Java 3D. If you look here, you will see some of th egreat work that is being done with JAI. The API is extremely solid, but we want to do a lot more with it.
The question that is always asked when we community develop something is whether or not we will still support it. Of course we will. The purpose of community developing a project is to increase focus on the project, not decrease focus. This allows developers using the API to become more productive and have more influence over the future direction of the API. We will still lead the project and build products from the community source base. We just won't be the only ones developing the code.
There is another great artifact of launching a community like this. With API's like JAI, the power of the API is directly related to the plug-ins that are available. Our hope is that the JAI community site will become the place where developers can deposit and share all of their wonderful JAI plug-ins. When you get to the core of why communities work, it is about sharing knowledge and technology. I truly hope this grows in the JAI community.
So, I strongly encourage you to check out JAI and all the things it has been used for - you might be surprised. Hopefully, it will inspire you to join the community and work with us to make it a better API.
Posted at 08:15AM Feb 11, 2005 by dtwilleager in General | Comments[0]