In Alchemy everything is stored in a BufferedImage
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/image/BufferedImage.html
Supposedly that is hardware accelerated in the JVM using OPENGL, but there are no direct calls made.
To be honest I haven’t programmed anything in earnest using Obj-C before and was hoping you guys might have a generic JNI example I could work off.
I think the alpha thing is a great idea btw.