Is DirectX on Java possible?

Question

Is there an easy way to use DirectX in Java? In particular, DirectX's video APIs.

I know that C# might be a more natural choice, but I have my devious reasons for wanting to do something so perverse.

Answer 1

There seems to be a standard API about dealing with 3D inside Java.

It probably uses some kind of accelerating technology, may be even DirectX.

But I'm not sure about direct video support in this framework.

Answer 2

There is a set of Direct3D bindings for Java available at http://java-direct3d.sourceforge.net/ but it seems that developement stopped in 2006 with DirectX 9.

Otherwise, there are OpenGL binding for java called JOGL.

Answer 3

I don't know about easy, but you could always use JNI to load the DirectX libs and invoke the methods.

Using something like Swig you could auto-generate a lot of the code.

Not sure how workable something like that would be though.

Answer 4

The package that you want to investigate is the Java Media Framework (JMF). The core of it is pure Java, and per-platform "performance packs" provide acceleration via native libraries. It currently supports A/V capture and playback in a wide variety of data types as well as streaming via RTP and RTSP.

Sun's JMF home page

JMF SW/HW requirements