Hi
Siegfried,
How you present your graphics to your users depends on
1. How much bandwidth they have
2. Whether they are willing/able to use a
plugin
3. How much interaction they
require.
Shipping a png/jpg to the client is simple in Batik and by far the
fastest, for complex datasets, but has the least interactivity. Some
people can't/won't use plugins. The simplest way to render SVG is normally
the adobe plugin (as it is fairly lightweight), however your scripting capacity
is limited. You could use batik as an applet but that requires the java
plugin and it's about 5MB download (though only the first time). Lastly
you can use java web start which is fine but you lose web browser
access.
Creating an applet from batik is straightforward. Just like any
other applet except it must be signed.
Gavin
Walker
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Computer Scientist
CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences
Distributed
Information Systems
GPO Box
664
tel: +61 2 6216 7030
CANBERRA ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA
fax: +61 2 6216 7111
