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diff --git a/www/index.html b/www/index.html index 8f70c8f..fdf402c 100644 --- a/www/index.html +++ b/www/index.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <html> <body> -<div align="center"><font color="#990000" size="+2">Welcome to the Java Game Technology Utilities Project! </font> </div> +<div align="center"><font color="#990000" size="+2">Welcome to the Java Input API Project! </font> </div> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="66%" valign="top"> <table width="100%" height="358" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1"> @@ -11,11 +11,18 @@ </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div align="justify"> - <p>The JUtils Project hosts an implementation of a set of APIs - utilized by other Java Game Technology Group projects (eg JInput,JOAl, JOGL). - Some of those other projects may have build and/or run-time dependancies on - the jutils.jar file which is built from the source hosted here. - </p> + <p>The JInput Project hosts an implementation of an API for game controller + discovery and polled input. It is part of a suite of open-source technologies + initiated by the Game Technology Group at Sun Microsystems with intention of + making the development of high performance games in Java a reality.</p> + <p>The API itself is pure Java and presents a platform-neutral + completely portable model of controller discovery and polling. + It can handle arbitrary controllers and returns both human and + machine understandable descriptions of the inputs available.</p> + <p>The implementation hosted here also includes plug-ins to allow + the API to adapt to various specific platforms. These plug-ins + often contain a native code portion to interface to the host system. + </p> </div></td> </tr> </table></td> @@ -27,14 +34,14 @@ Status</strong></font></div></td> </tr> <tr> - <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div align="justify">The intial implementation - of the JUtils library is available - for download from <a href=" http://jutils.dev.java.net/source/browse/jutils/ ">CVS</a>. - <p>The initial release contains support classes for a plug-in system that handles - an arbitrary number of arbitrarily complex plugins that each consist of a JAR - file and support files (other jar files, native libs, etc.) </p> + <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div align="justify">The intial implementation + of the Java Input API is available for download from + <a href=" http://jinput.dev.java.net/source/browse/jinput/ ">CVS</a>. + The initial release only contains a plug-in for Win32. + Plug-ins for other platforms (eg Linux, Mac, etc.) are expected to be + forthcoming either from the Java Game Technology Group or other project + contributors. </div></td> - <p>For more information, see the docs for the Plugins class in the CVS tree.</p> </tr> </table></td> </tr> @@ -56,10 +63,15 @@ <li>binutils 2.13.90</li> <li> w32api-2.2</li> <li> mingw-runtime-2.4</li> + <li> "Peter Puck's" DirectX8 binding "dx8libs.zip" at <a href="http://www.urebelscum.speedhost.com/download.html" target= " _blank"> www.urebelscum.speedhost.com/download.html</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> ANT 1.4.1 (available at <a href=" http://www.apache.org " target="_blank">www.apache.org</a>)</li> - </ul></td> + <p>This project requires that the Java Utils library (jutil.jar) be built and placed + in this project's lib directories. See the README for more detail. For the + Java Utils library itself see + <a href="http://jutils.dev.java.net" target="_blank"> jutils.dev.java.net </a> + </p></ul></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> |