A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
While developing quite complex java2d applications I've faced a number of times the problem to save the current Graphics state (clip,transform,paint,etc.) and restore it later.

it would be nice to have a Graphics2D api that allows saving and restoring the current graphics state. The api would look like this:

g2d.pushContext(AFFINETRANSFORM|CLIP|PAINT); // save AFFINETRANSFORM, CLIP, PAINT
g2d.setTransform(newTransform)
g2d.blabla();
..
g2d.pushContext(FONT); // save current font
...
g2d.setFont(newfont)
g2d.drawString(....);
...
g2d.popContext(); // restore previous font
..
g2d.drawString(....);
..
g2d.popContext(); // restore previous AFFINETRANSFORM, CLIP, PAINT

of course it should handle a stack of contexts.



JUSTIFICATION :
The current Java2D implementation forces me to make copies of the objects I'm going to modify and then re-set them in the graphics context later. An alternative is using create() and destroy() but this means creating a brand new context for each call. I suppose these approaches are both memory consuming and quite expensive in terms of performance. Even more they contribute to make us write a lot/complex code for doing simple things.

I think that the Push/Pop approach would be of great help in order to keep code clean and execution very fast. I think it would also be helpful in order to optimize the new OGL pipeline.