Here is to announce the first release of *osg4web project*. OSG4web is the result of a CINECA and CNR ITABC effort to provide a framework for in-browser opengl-based application wrapping. The framework allow the development of Opengl and OSG based applications tha open windows within the browsers, allowing javascript bidirectional interaction with surrounding page elements. Currently the supported browsers are Firefox and IE and OS platform is Windows XP-Vista. Nevertheless, most part of the code is OS neutral.
The name derive from the history of the project that tried to revive osgax activeX wrapping. The projects started to fill the need of web-enabled 3d terrain and geo-spatial data abrowsing in a pre-google-Earth time. The project is still in progress but it seems enough solid to be worth to be exposed to the community. One of the main goal of this release is the de-coupling of the application specific (and even rendering engine specific) code from the browser related code. This release of the plugin allow run-time loading of different application cores at the web page opening, so allowing the same installed plugin to brows pages that require completely different application codes. In the CVS repository there are few osg and opengl example cores that can be browsed independently. The main plugin (shell) provide functions to runtime downloadind and sign checking (SHA or MD5) application cores Currently the main demo application is a landscape model of part of Rome both actual and roman age. VirtualRome project is still in progress. *More info at http://www.virtualrome.itabc.cnr.it * * The code is available at* cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/cvsroot/unigrids co projects/osg/cineca/web/osg4web_r2 The code is released as GPL for the part (shell) that links with the browsers code and LGPL for the cores that link against OSG This kind of licensing should allow anyone to use for developing Open or Closed source web app (cores) that can be dynamically loaded by the common open source Browser plugin (shell). The GPL licensing of this component is intended to promote sharing of the infrastructure code. If someone is attending Siggraph, we can arrange for a meeting at poster session, where we are presenting the Virualrome project We will be also attend at OSG Bof For any commnets or questions contact: Luigi Calori [EMAIL PROTECTED]<https://webmail.sic.rm.cnr.it/horde/imp/message.php?index=88297#> Carlo Camporesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofia Pescarin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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