I just did an initial file release of a what I call "J3DWorkbench", a GPL-licenced WYSIWYG-style Scene Graph Editor/Viewer found at
J3DWorkbench is a full-featured, extensible application framework implementation built on Java3D and Eclipse RCP API.
It has never been tested on platforms other than Windows (because I don't currently have access to these), but the stand-alone binaries are indeed available for MS as well as different flavors of Linux.
Please feel free to download, use, and evaluate -- I would be grateful for feedback, bug reports, and eventually code contributions and extensions.
I am currently working on documentation and help modules.
Cheers,
Ken
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It has never been tested on platforms other than Windows (because I don't currently have access to these), but the stand-alone binaries are indeed available for MS as well as different flavors of Linux.

It won't work on Mac. AWT and SWT have mutual incompatibilities on the
Mac platform leading to deadlock of the entire application and
occasionally the entire UI. Anything that even looks in the direction of
the AWT event queue in SWT on a Mac causes the deadlock due to some
internal major differences (AWT uses Cocoa, SWT uses Carbon and you
cannot mix the two within a single application).

In the current architecture of Java3D there's, unfortunately, no way
around this problem - even using the JGL renderer. I've ported the JGL
reference implementation to work on SWT on all the major platforms, but
it requires the use of different factories and the UI canvas class has
to be different too. I've chatted with Kevin about helping out getting
J3D to work in Eclipse in the future. It will require some change to the
primary API of Canvas3D as just changing the underlying
GLDrawableFactory using the standard system property is not sufficient
to enable this to work. The extent of this change is such that it is
something that will not be done in the 1.5 timeline, but probably one of
the major changes for 1.6.

Justin

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