Blu-ray Disc Java and GEM/MHP/OCAP Authoring Notes and Guidelines

This document contains links to helpful notes and guidelines for the Blu-ray Java author. This is the index page.

Setting Up a Development Environment

• Where to find PC Player Software
• How can I get a BD-J Platform Definition (javadocs and classes.zip).

Technical Notes and Authoring Guidelines

• Images and Memory management.
• Doing Animation in BD-J and GEM.
• Dealing with Optional APIs, like JSSE.
• How to Structure Blu-ray Titles
• A disc's organization_id versus an xlet's
• How AACS works.
• Tips on networking and xlet lifecycle in BD-J.

Products and Services

• BD-J and GEM Open-Source Projects
• BD-J and GEM Commercial Products and Services

Contributions to this wiki are welcome! Just log in to java.net, and then come over here and edit.

A Note about spec authorship

From time to time, there has been some confusion about who authored the BD-J specifications, and Sun's role in the process. Sun does host this wiki and other developer tools, and is a BDA board member, but the BD-J specification was very much a group effort. In fact, many portions of the part 3-2 specification (which specifies, inter alia, the org.bluray package) were written by the BDF, or Blu-ray Disc Founders, before the formation of the BDA, and before Sun joined the BDA. Sun was more directly involved in the original authorship of the DVB portions of Blu-ray (GEM and MHP), and of course the JCP elements of BD-J are more directly attributable to Sun.

This underscores the need for a community to support BD-J developers. Because no one entity wrote the entire specification, its maintenance and support are very much a community effort.

-- Main.billf - 25 Apr 2008