Let's get a little superficial here. I mean, databases teeming with knowledge, tables full of figures, and frames full of text are all well and good. These things may even be the soul of the information age. But it's the graphics, sounds, and animations that are the hot bod ? the components that really create love at first site. The Java Media Framework (JMF) is an attempt to collide the portability and ease of Java with the appeal of multimedia. The idea is to have a one-size-fits-all way of easily capturing, processing, converting, and playing media data smack within Java programs. JMF 2.0 was developed by Sun and IBM, letting application developers control every step of the recording and playback of audio and video files or streams.