Programming Discussion Thread

[AnyOldName3]

I may or may not have put myself down to write some kind of software renderer for computing coursework. I have a few questions.

1. Does vanilla Java 7 have any support for OpenGL or DirectX? The reason it was going to be a software renderer was that I don't think you can use these APIs without installing extensions, which you can't do on the school network.
2. Are there any relatively simple was of doing this?
3. The easiest way from my current knowledge to draw something 3D in vanilla Java would be to use a load of JLabels, and change their colour to match what they're supposed to be displaying. This won't be a fast or tidy way of doing things, but it would work. The question is, would there be anything easier?