All,
It's been over a year since we've been working on our product. We selected
Java3D for a variety of reasons, fully expecting that Sun would make
advances in deployment. In fact, of all the technological hurdles we were
facing at the time deployment was very low on the list--barely on the
horizon. Today, however, it's a different story. We are going through a
variety of hoops trying to determine which of our options makes the most
sense. We wouldn't be in this gut-wrenching position if Sun provided an
architecture which would do just what Isie says--auto-download only those
components and those which are out of date when needed. Almost every other
downloadable solution is doing this now.
I know that representatives from Sun (and others) can list several reasons
why this isn't feasible (multiple JRE versions, other dependencies,
etc.). I also know that it can be solved.
No more excuses please.
On the positive side, J3D works great for what we are doing and we are very
happy with it.
--Mark
At 11:55 AM 5/11/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I think Sun needs to rethink it's Java deployment strategy as whole. If Java
>is going to survive a viable web/client platform this would need to be
>addressed soon. Java and Java 3D should be able to be installed by a non
>technical user as a result of a single click on a web site. In addition Java
>and Java3D are way to big and typical home users with a 56k line won't
>be to inclined to download a 7.5 MB plug-in. Perhaps a solution to this
>problem would be for Sun to develop a small auto-updatedable plug-in that
>would
>only *download* the needed components for the target application. Viewpoint
>uses this strategy with their plug-in.
>
>Isie Masri
>CTO
>Xtivia Technologies
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