The Pisces graphics rasterizer has been replaced with the Marlin graphics renderer in the Java 2D API. This API is used to draw 2D graphics and animations.

The goal was to replace Pisces with a rasterizer/renderer that was much more efficient and without any quality loss. This goal was realized in Java 9. An intended collateral benefit was to include a developer-accessible API. Previously, the means of interfacing with the AWT and Java 2D was internal.