This page summarizes the graphics design plan of the OpenJDK Mac port.

Requirements

• Support generic Java2D drawing in ordinary heavyweight windows
• Support embedding other Quartz or OpenGL based drawing via JAWT
• Support embedding applet content in browsers, and sub-embedding
• Be highly performant

Remaining work

• Use CAOpenGLLayers for each window or embedded surface
• Split the exiting OpenGLRenderQueue into multiple queues per layer
• Complete implementations of the "lightweight" AWT controls

Completed work

• Render all Java2D drawing in OpenGL
• Bring up Cocoa-based event system

Q&A

Q: Why use CoreAnimation layers? Why not IOSurfaces?
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Q: Why not use CoreGraphics drawing in applet plug-ins?
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Q: Why use OpenGL? What happened to the Quartz and Sun2D renderers in Apple's Java SE 6?
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