Hi,
Yes, I'm aware of the VM issue (found out this week end... and was
disappointed)
But I found something on sourceforge this morning:
FreeWRL VRML/X3D browser <http://sourceforge.net/projects/freewrl/>
FreeWRL is an Open Source, cross platform VRML2 and X3D compliant browser,
with script and EAI support. Platforms supported: Linux; Mac OS/X, and other
Unix-style platforms. A Windows port is not yet started, but will eventually
happen.
Hope they'll implement EAI for sun JVM...
I'll have a look at SAI.
Thanks a lot,
Franck
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Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] java3d and EAI
Are you aware that most of the existing commercial EAI
implementations are
still dependent on the old MS JVM and won't work with the
Sun JVM?
The MS JVM dependency introduces additional problems, so not
only do you
have to consider which vrml plugin the client is using
(because each plugin
and EAI implementation tends to behave differently) you also
have to
consider which jvm, if any, is installed and, if it is, will
an applet talk
to the vrml plugin over the EAI...
I wouldn't advise anyone to use the vrml eai in a commercial
product and I
think its still far too early to know if the new version of
the eai
incorportated in the X3D specs ( its now called the Scene
Access Interface
SAI) is going to be a success.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Franck Calzada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] java3d and EAI
> Thanks a lot Jonathan,
>
> I'll check it out.
> I'm surprised that a technology didn't emerge to handle
this kind of
needs.
>
> My goal is to create a virtual mall using VRML and
Weblogic Application
> server
> I wanted to use VRML because of number of VRML browser
that already exist.
I
> don't want to develope such interface in java3d since VRML
already have
> almost everything... but the control from the outside (get
events in java
on
> a VRML file from a VRML browser)....
>
> Franck
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@SUNGARD On Behalf Of
Jonathan Merritt
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> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 11:22 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] java3d and EAI
>
> Hello,
>
> I once created a simulation of streamlines
passing over an
> aerofoil
> using VRML and the EAI. That work has
long since passed
> into the realm
> of dead links from my undergraduate
degree.
>
> I think VRML suffered from a great deal of
enthusiasm but
a
> lack of good
> authoring tools. Certainly, I think you
could achieve
most
> things more
> simply using the EAI than you could using
VRML's internal
> event
> mechanism (which, only in IMHO, was
*really* difficult to
> use!).
>
> I haven't tracked the progress of VRML for
a long time
now.
> When I was
> last paying attention, they were making
the move to an XML
> encoding
> (x3d) for VRML, which I thought was a very
good idea.
There
> used to be
> a VRML mailing list (www-vrml), which
seems to still be
> around:
>
>
http://www.web3d.org/cgi-bin/public_list_signup/lwgate/WWW-VRML/
> That may still be the best place to ask
questions
(although
> obviously
> don't go in there asking: "Is this
technology dead?",
since
> that's a
> sure way to get flamed! :-).
>
> Don't write it off completely though.
Depending upon your
> specific
> application, VRML may be absolutely ideal.
I think there
> has also been
> some good progress made in the Open Source
area since I
was
> last involved.
>
> Jonathan Merritt.
>
> >I have seen little evidence of anyone
using VRML in the
> real world for the last 3-4 years. It is one of those
"neat idea, never
> quite went anywhere" kind of things, as far as I can tell.
> >
> >I mean I'm sure it is being used by some
people, but by
and
> large it comes across as cumbersome, hard to use and
subject to a dearth
of
> good tools for creating and displaying scenes.
> >
> >Although I'm not keen at all, these guys
(
> http://www.web3d.org/ ) seem pretty excited about it and
I'm sure they
spend
> more time thinking about it than I do.
> >
> >-ben
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
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> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Calzada
> >Sent: 28 May 2004 09:53
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [JAVA3D] java3d and EAI
> >
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Does anyone have experience with EAI /
VRML and JAVA3D?
If
> so, do you think
> >it's a good technology? Is it gonna be
enhanced? Is it
the
> best way to
> >get/set information from/to a vrml file?
> >
> >Thanks for your comments,
> >Franck
> >
> >
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