Editing JMonkeyEngine (section)

===jMonkeyEngine 0.1 – 2.0===
Version 0.1 to 2.0 of jMonkeyEngine marks the time from when the project was first established in 2003, until the last 2.0 version was released in 2008. When the original core developers gradually discontinued work on the project throughout the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008, Version 2.0 had not yet been made officially stable. The code-base became adopted for commercial use and was most popular with the engine's community at the time.

{{timeline-start}}

{{timeline-item|{{Start date|2003}}|Initial work on jMonkeyEngine was begun by Mark Powell (aka MojoMonkey) as a side project to see if a fully featured graphics API could be written in Java.  Much of the early work on the API was inspired by David Eberly's C++ book ''3D Game Engine Design''.}}

{{timeline-item|{{Start date|2004|01}}|Mark was joined by Joshua Slack (aka Renanse) and together over the following two years, with the help of other community contributors, a commercially viable API was developed.}}

{{timeline-item|{{Start date|2008|08|15}}|Joshua Slack announces to step back from active development of the jMonkeyEngine.<ref>{{Cite web
|url=http://jmonkeyengine.org/groups/development-discussion-jme2/forum/topic/a-break
|title=a break
|author=Joshua Slack
|publisher=jMonkeyEngine forum
|date=2008-08-15
|access-date=2009-08-12
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726211405/http://jmonkeyengine.org/groups/development-discussion-jme2/forum/topic/a-break
|archive-date=2011-07-26
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
|url=http://blog.renanse.com/2008/08/at-end-of-tour.html
|title=At the end of the tour...
|author=Joshua Slack
|date=2008-08-14
|access-date=2009-08-12
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703213723/http://blog.renanse.com/2008/08/at-end-of-tour.html
|archive-date=2009-07-03
}}</ref>}}

{{timeline-end}}