[JAVA3D] Java 3D FAQ Weekly Posting (15 Sep 2003)

2003-09-15 Thread The Java 3D FAQ
The Java 3D Frequently Asked Questions list for Monday September 15 2003 This is a posting of topics covered in the Java 3D FAQ. The answers to these questions are kept at: http://www.j3d.org/faq Please consult this list and the web site before asking questions on the mailing list. If

Re: [JAVA3D] Loading shapes from databases

2003-09-15 Thread Silvère Martin-Michiellot
I think, depending on what the other team works (or plans to work) on you should consider using JDO as a database, this should be faster and probably more efficient/memory/maintain/coding. Look at http://www.objectdb.com/ I believe it is thebest thing for your stuff. Anyone to disagree ? At 11:07

Re: [JAVA3D] Loading shapes from databases

2003-09-15 Thread Alessandro Borges
Be Happy !! You just have half of the work, hehehe ;)   Alessandro - Original Message - From: Robert Gomez-Reino To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Loading shapes from databases The problem is that I am not g

Re: [JAVA3D] Loading shapes from databases

2003-09-15 Thread Robert Gomez-Reino
The problem is that I am not going to store the geometries in databases, the idea is that I will load the geometry (of a big machine) that will be manually stored in  databases by another group. Looks like a big task, maybe somebody else has done something similar already. - Original

Re: [JAVA3D] Loading shapes from databases

2003-09-15 Thread Alessandro Borges
I see no problems to store geometries in a DB. Geometries are usualy big files, so varchar2 my not fit your needs. DB LONG, CLOB and BLOB my help here.   about what kind of info will be stored: The database format LONG is used to store large strings, but you can store binary data as explaine

[JAVA3D] Loading shapes from databases

2003-09-15 Thread Robert Gomez-Reino
Hi people, is anybody working with this? Loading geometries from databases? Can you give me any information about this? Recommendations? Boby === To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of t

Re: [JAVA3D] AWT or SWING with J3D ?

2003-09-15 Thread Dirk L. van Krimpen
  Aaron,   I always like the example Daniel Selman gives in his book Java 3D programming. It's simple and it works. The chapter in the book where it is described is called: Java 3D, Swing and Applets.   I suppose you don't have this book. It might still be available on-line at something like: