Brief Survey of GEM Authoring Tools will have you GRINing

A great presentation is available from the IEEE which not only explains the relationship of various flavours of Java to each other for TVs and set top boxes but also reviews the authoring tools available and compares the styles. No conclusions to be drawn here, but Bill Foote ,the author, is heavily involved in grin which is a scene graph language that sits on an animation framework, ultimately relying on GEM graphics libraries and has an associated authoring tool mainly aimed at Blu-ray but which is claimed ot be compatible with OCAP, Tru2way and MHP. The syntax is very similar to JavaFX and certainly this merits a much closer look in a future article...in the mean time here is a presentation on the GRIN technology family from JavaOne 2009.