There is something a bit like this in VisAD, for using clusters of processors as the server and a user's workstation as the client. Each processor in the cluster computes part of the scene graph and sends it to the client using VisAD's Serializable stand-ins for selected Java3D classes. On the client, these are converted to the Java3D classes and merged into a scene graph. This is all in the visad.cluster package of VisAD, available at:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/visad.html Cheers, Bill Hibbard On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Zoran Krunic wrote: > > Hi there! > > I would like to know if there is any experience/documentation about splitting > the J3D application into the server and client-side. I would like to run the main > processing/scene-graph updating engine, that also includes the database > access, on the main WEB server, while only the rendering of the updated frames > is done at the client ( in the applet). Is there a way to do that ? Does it >require > customizing the J3D source? This could also lead to multi-user sharing of the > same database, kind of like multiplayer game, although in this case it is not a > game, but rather database-related software. Currently (the raw prototype) of the > software does all of the scene updates in the behavior code, including the >pick-related > actions. As those get more complicated, the frame rate would drop, unless done >in the > background. There is no problem with waiting few frames for main action to post > the results on the screen, but the resources needed to do so may not be easily > available on the client. Also the amount of data coming from the database would >stay > at the server side and update the scene there rather than travel across the WEB >to the > client to update the frames. Finally shared viewing of the scene would be much >easier > synchronized this way. > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > Zoran > > > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
