The fact is, Java 3D supports PC platforms without changing a single line of code. With Java technology, we can support one product that runs on all platforms. This means our team can spend its time adding functionality for users, not just delivering it to their platform. One of the hands-on developers is Gerry Furseth, software development manager at Facet. The scene graph architecture of Java 3D is an important advance, and it's the main reason for the reduction in code size.
Facet is quick to move on new technologies.
With Facet's visualization products, you can see your whole enterprise financially in 3D. You can review not only cost center revenues across your enterprise, but also across multiple time periods. You have the ability to click on a single cost center and look at its accounting information in detail, or apply spatial and temporal analysis to the cost center data points and spread them across your business geography. They're used to modeling big, complex problems. But now, engineering workstations and expensive modeling software aren't requirements for everyday 3D use, and just about anyone can get acceptable performance on a network. To reduce the impact of potential bottlenecks caused by today's more collaborative work environment, the Java 3D API incorporates geometry compression that allows very large 3D models to be rapidly downloaded over the network for remote viewing and manipulation.