Vladimir Olenin wrote:
>
> Just jar the your.wrl file and load it via jar: protocol like this:
> jar:http:\\yourdomain\yourjar.jar!\your.wrl. For further information
> see API doc for JarURLConnection class.
The problem with this is that VRML itself is not defined to work from a
JAR file. Don Brutzman was extremely keen for me to get that into the
EAI and scripting specs, but it never happened because there was no
elegant solution at the time. I then left VRML efforts.
Sometime later, I can up with a nice solution. I proposed to Don to make
the appropriate wording additions to the EAI spec but got knocked back.
The grounds were that the EAI was going through the ISO process (which
it _still_ hasn't to my knowledge). Therefore the behaviour of VRML in
any archived format (JAR, ZIP, CAB etc) is completely non-deterministic.
The problem is dealing with relative references. For example, if you
refer to a texture as "image.png" how does the browser know whether to
fetch it from the same dir in the JAR file, or from the same directory
that the JAR file was located in? From memory, the J3D VRML loader
doesn't have any capabilities at all for dealing with these issues.
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