Project Wonderland

Some excellent news from the the Sun's Project Wonderland team. They are replacing Java3D with the more modern jMonkeyEngine (JME) scene graph. This change will also involve making some core changes to JME to better support Wonderland features. The change is needed for a number of reasons. There are features in JME that will substantially help to upgrade the look of Wonderland including render-to-texture and multi-pass. Additionally, there is an existing and growing tool chain around JME.