I've used Apache with Jakarta Serlvets to host Java3d applets that read VRML & render it with animation with Sun's Xj3d VRML Loaders.
But ... the Java3d has to be installed by the user, Java3d is not part of the standard Java3d install.
I believe technically it can be done with Java Web Start but legally it's a no-no because of licensning or export restrictions, it might be allowed if you can prohibit the installs from going outside the US.
You are ( I think ) allowed to have automatic installation if it was within a private network where you weren't exported anything to external parties.
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Web Server Delivers Java3d animation with JSP & Sun's Loaders; -------------------------------------------------------------- | was: [ Yumetech's ] xj3d java.io.Reader [ fails ] again | | | Java Server Pages ( JSP ) deliver Java3d in a browser with | ----------------- Sun's VRML Loaders | | Java Tomcat Web Server to delivers Java3d VRML animation to | --------------- client's Web Browser shown with Sun's NetBean's IDE | --------------- using ___ Sun's VRML Loaders. ____ | | Java Server Pages ( JSP ) dynmaically create web page from | Java Server to URL ( see image attached & web page ) | | http://localhost:8081/jsp/plugin.jsp VRML file loaded: | http://localhost:8081/jsp/fingerspelling.wrl | $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/examples/jsp/plugin/fingerspelling.wrl | | It's all free & portable ( it's all Java ) ... | | Sun's Netbeans IDE, Sun's Loaders, the Tomcat / Apache Web server. | http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0307&L=java3d-interest&P=R60725 http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind0307&L=java3d-interest &P=2955168&E=2&B=--------------030502070103040602020008&N= sc_server_jsp_client_3d_c20.jpg&T=image/jpeg
hterrolle wrote: > > I have create an APACHE server to server J3D apllet. > > I test it with a friend how could open the page from > my server but how was not able to run the HelloUniverse_plugin.html > page on is machine. He got the pluging JAVA 1.4.1 installed > and running but got problem with > "HelloUniverse/javax/media/j3d/Node.class". > > My questions are: > does my firend (client) need to install himself the Plugin > or it should be automaticly install from the page? > What do i need to install on my server ? > > Thanks a lot for your help > > Herve | http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0308&L=java3d-interest&P=45752
The end user has to install the Java3d library from Sun.
This limitation and the "doesn't run on Apple's Macintosh" have been the two biggest gripes about Java3d.
The javax/media/j3d/Node.class is in the Java3d package.
Nothing else has to be on the server, except obviously the Java program files ( .class or .jar ) and the neither Apache nor any web services are required unless you require additional services, eg. multi-player games, database functions, uploading files or other information.
Here's one of my favorite Java3d web applets, it's girl moving with clothing that conforms to her body and the data is loaded from VRML files, and it's new:
| | Hi all, | | I'm opening a cloth simulation applet. | http://vr.kaist.ac.kr/~redmong/research.htm http://vr.kaist.ac.kr/~redmong/IGS/index.html | | And I'll open a VRML Loader which can | load animation infomation and can be used | for the skinning animation. | | Welcome to your advices. | | [ | Seungwoo Oh | Virtual Reality Laboratory | Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | ] | http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0308&L=java3d-interest&P=16524
PS. I like this very much, but it doesn't run on Linux ;^(
-- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator -------------------------------------- Imaging the Imagined: Modeling with Math & a Keyboard
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