Magician

A multi-platform OpenGL interface for Java, allowing programmers to take advantage of the native and accelerated OpenGL implementations on the OS's rather than rely on the (then) primitive Java 3D tools. Introduced by UK based company Arcane Technologies Ltd in 1995 with a 1.0 GA release in 1997 and in addition to OS/2 it supported Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Solaris (Both SPARC and i86) and IRIX and early versions had also supported Linux and AIX. It was considered to be by far the most effective of the OpenGL bindings available for Java at the time and in fact in 1998 the Java standards group proposed to make the main Magician binding interface the standard OpenGL interface for the Java toolkit but the company's disappearance made that fall through.

The company and product disappeared around 2000.

Versions

 * Last known version: Magician 1.1.0 (1999)

Licence and availability

 * Discontinued commercial software.

Publisher

 * Arcane Technologies Ltd

Links

 * Archive copy of the Arcane Technologies Ltd homepage - Via Archive.org
 * Alligator Descartes: Magician Programmer’s Guide For Java - For version 1.1.3?
 * Alligator Descartes: Arcane Technologies' Response to OpenGL ARB JavaGL Issues