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This article is from the Amiga Networking FAQ, by Richard Norman with numerous contributions by others.
What is JAVA and VRML, and are they available for the Amiga?
JAVA is being spearheaded by SUN Microsystems,and you can check their web site for
details.
JAVA is a new language for the WWW that has more power than HTML . Don't expect
it to replace HTML any time soon though. JAVA is intended to augment HTML by
allowing web page authors to provide programs which run on the client's machine.
These programs can be anything from an animation to a full blown user interface
into a remote database or application. In fact there is more than one form of
JAVA: JAVA as applets, JAVA as applications, and JAVAScript.
JAVA applets run in the context of a web browser. Currently there are no Amiga web
browsers that support JAVA applets, but that could change soon.
JAVA applications require an interpreter called a virtual machine (VM).
JAVAScript is more of a Basic langauage which is only supported by Netscape and
Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It was developed by Netscape and SUN.
Since JAVA is a programming language, you can find tools on the new GEEK GADGETS
cd rom from Cronus .
JAVA is being ported to the Amiga. Niall Teasdale has a web page on the project
which is being called P'Jami.
There are also several other ports of JAVA underway. One is called Kaffe and it
supplies a VM to run JAVA applications. Another is the JAVA JIT compiler.
VRML is Virtual Reality Markup Langauge which is being spearheaded by SGI. This
language also augments HTML and allows web authors to add 3d graphics, or to build
3d graphics worlds (virtual reality) which can be navigated over the web or
locally.
Remember Calagari? The Amiga 3d graphics package which became Truespace when they
ported to the PC. Well they are heavily involved with SGI in developing VRML
tools. Even if there is no Amiga port of VRML viewers, you can still get your
Amiga 3d graphics objects into VRML format. Lightwave has a VRML saver. Also
there are DXF to VRML converters on other platforms.
You can always use one of the web search engines to find tons of Java and VRML
stuff.
Continue to:
amiga, pc, hardware, sotware, networking
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