Thanks a lot Jonathan,
I'll check it out.
I'm surprised that a technology didn't emerge to handle this kind of needs.
My goal is to create a virtual mall using VRML and Weblogic Application
server
I wanted to use VRML because of number of VRML browser that already exist. I
don't want to develope such interface in java3d since VRML already have
almost everything... but the control from the outside (get events in java on
a VRML file from a VRML browser)....
Franck
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Hello,
I once created a simulation of streamlines passing over an
aerofoil
using VRML and the EAI. That work has long since passed
into the realm
of dead links from my undergraduate degree.
I think VRML suffered from a great deal of enthusiasm but a
lack of good
authoring tools. Certainly, I think you could achieve most
things more
simply using the EAI than you could using VRML's internal
event
mechanism (which, only in IMHO, was *really* difficult to
use!).
I haven't tracked the progress of VRML for a long time now.
When I was
last paying attention, they were making the move to an XML
encoding
(x3d) for VRML, which I thought was a very good idea. There
used to be
a VRML mailing list (www-vrml), which seems to still be
around:
http://www.web3d.org/cgi-bin/public_list_signup/lwgate/WWW-VRML/
That may still be the best place to ask questions (although
obviously
don't go in there asking: "Is this technology dead?", since
that's a
sure way to get flamed! :-).
Don't write it off completely though. Depending upon your
specific
application, VRML may be absolutely ideal. I think there
has also been
some good progress made in the Open Source area since I was
last involved.
Jonathan Merritt.
>I have seen little evidence of anyone using VRML in the
real world for the last 3-4 years. It is one of those "neat idea, never
quite went anywhere" kind of things, as far as I can tell.
>
>I mean I'm sure it is being used by some people, but by and
large it comes across as cumbersome, hard to use and subject to a dearth of
good tools for creating and displaying scenes.
>
>Although I'm not keen at all, these guys (
http://www.web3d.org/ ) seem pretty excited about it and I'm sure they spend
more time thinking about it than I do.
>
>-ben
>
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>Subject: [JAVA3D] java3d and EAI
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>
>Hi all,
>
>Does anyone have experience with EAI / VRML and JAVA3D? If
so, do you think
>it's a good technology? Is it gonna be enhanced? Is it the
best way to
>get/set information from/to a vrml file?
>
>Thanks for your comments,
>Franck
>
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