I am writing a short and sweet article for the Javaranch Journal on the different opengl options for Java. This is not a what is better and what is worse. This is merely an informational article saying here is what it is with a link. I looked, but could not find, a bit of history on jME. Where it started. Why it started. When it started. It's current direction, etc. Does anyone have any information I could use? If you don't want to post it here you can email me at gdboling at gmail dot com.
Thanks.
Gregg Bolinger
http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=46 has some background information.
Where: at home, hobby project.
Why: Interest in graphics and boredom. No plans for it to become anything useful.
When:
Timeline:
June 2003 - jME project begins (collection of graphics utilities, not a proper engine)
Sept 2003 - jME switches to a proper scenegraph based engine.
Nov, Dec 2003 - First initial releases to public of scenegraph
Feb 2004 - Josh "Renanse" Slack joins.
Aug 2004 - Jack "Cep21" Lindamood joins and adds Model handling with the .jme format.
March 2005 - jME is shown at GDC
July 2005 - llama and irrisor join the team
That's just kind of off the top of my head, others can feel free to add more.