Hi Roberto,
thanks for this information. It helps me a lot.
May I ask you (all) another question?
What do you think about X3D and VRML in relation to Java3D?
Will Java3D make it obsolete?
Thanks again.
Thomas.
Thomas Bendig
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion list for Java 3D API
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roberto Speranza
> Sent: Mittwoch, 8. September 1999 18:55
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D distribution with browsers
>
>
> At JavaOne, it was mentioned that Netscape 5.0 will ship with the latest
> version of the Java Plugin released at that time. My guess is that they
> will want to ship with version 1.3 (probably late fall) since that version
> of the Java plugin is supposed to support the extension download
> mechanisms
> present in JDK 1.3 ie. you can deploy a jar file that specifies in its
> manifest that it needs Java3D 1.x and if it is not present, the
> plugin will
> prompt the user to download the extension from the Sun Web site
> and install
> it. The same version of the plugin is also supposed to support local
> caching of jar files downloaded over the internet so that you
> only download
> a jar file for an applet on a Web site the first time and
> download it again
> only if the jar file has been modified.
>
> Roberto Speranza
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