Sun's Project Wonderland and jMonkeyEngine

Many of you are no doubt familiar with Sun's "Project Wonderland", the "toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds" built on Java 3D technology and Sun's Darkstar server platform. Paul Byrne, of Java3D and Project Looking Glass fame recently announced that Project Wonderland will be making a switch from using Java3D to using jMonkeyEngine. Paul cites the support for features such as multipass and render-to-texture as part of the reasoning as well as a rich set of utilities. I'd have to imagine that the lively and very supportive community we have was another potential dealmaker.

I certainly welcome the switch and look forward to the boost in smart technical discussions this will no doubt bring to jME.