Java: create graphics without awt?

Question

Is there any library out there to create graphics without using AWT?
What I need is simple drawing functions (like to draw a line) and text drawing functions to create graphics in memory for a Google app engine application. App engine does not support AWT.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Google Web Toolkit contains a nice graphics library designed for interfacing with the Google app engine.

edit to clarify: Google App Engine is designed for hosting applications on the web. You need to design graphics that can run in the browser. To do this, you need to write code in a web language, Javascript, for example. Google Web Toolkit contains a Java graphics library which compiles down to Javascript, saving you the effort of writing the Javascript yourself.

Answer 2

There's a blog here about deploying Javafx applications to Google App Engine:

http://110j.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/javafx-on-google-app-engine/

you can use that to create graphics, but you need to do some research first into 2D graphics and such:

http://www.dieajax.com/2007/10/15/10-minute-tutorial-javafx-basic-2d-graphics-and-animation/

Answer 3

You might try using SenseLan. In the requirements section, it says they don't use awt or ImageIO. Of course, there is the Images api but it seems fairly limited in what it offers.

Edit:

It looks like there are a couple of Python possibilities that could offer you some limited drawing capabilities. You could probably write appropriate image functionality as python web services, and keep the rest of the app in Java:

1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1131992/replacing-functionality-of-pil-imagedraw-in-google-app-engine-gae
2. http://denislaprise.com/2008/08/21/drawing-images-on-google-app-engine/

Answer 4

'The Java 2D API is a set of classes for advanced 2D graphics and imaging, encompassing line art, text, and images' http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/2D/index.jsp

Here's another possibility: org.eclipse.draw2d It probably relies on eclipse SWT.

Answer 5

Not unless you want to implement your own image class (say, a bitmap) and rendering algorithms for lines, shapes, images.

If you have experience with computer graphics and rasterization, this may not be very hard, but otherwise it will be more than you want to bite off.