Is DirectX on Java possible?

Question

Is there an easy way to use DirectX in Java? In particular, DirectX's video APIs.

I know that C# might be a more natural choice, but I have my devious reasons for wanting to do something so perverse.

Answer 1

I don't know about easy, but you could always use JNI to load the DirectX libs and invoke the methods.

Using something like Swig you could auto-generate a lot of the code.

Not sure how workable something like that would be though.

Answer 2

There seems to be a standard API about dealing with 3D inside Java.

It probably uses some kind of accelerating technology, may be even DirectX.

But I'm not sure about direct video support in this framework.