Java SceneGraph API released

Summary

Lots of wonderful things are happening for Java desktop apps. Enter the new SceneGraph API for Java. What is a SceneGraph? Java2D is an immediate mode API, which means that your code is executed when the screen must be refreshed/painted, and your code draws to the screen immediately. SceneGraph in contrast is a retained mode API, which means that you declare what you want to happen and when. But the API figures out the caching, dealing with repaints, clipping, and lots of other low level details that you normally have to deal with – which makes it easier to use!

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