Re: [openvrml-develop] Status update: modularization

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 17:40 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> As I mentioned in a previous update, the primary feature I want to have 
> in place for 0.17 is the fragmentation of libopenvrml into dynamically 
> loaded modules. I've started some work on this.

Well, obviously that didn't quite happen...

> There will be two kinds of modules: node components and scripting 
> engines. I've started with the latter because it is more obvious to me 
> how scripting engine modules should work; node component modules are 
> going to require an XML descriptor and inter-component dependencies and 
> it's not yet clear to me what the desirable mechanics are for that.
> 
> At this point I have successfully ported the JavaScript scripting 
> backend to a dynamically loaded module; it seems to be working just 
> fine. I would like to take this opportunity to fix the long-ailing Java 
> scripting engine. I'm just now getting an idea of what I'm in for.

[snip]

Damn... It's hard for me to believe that it's been more than a year
since I started on this--before getting sidetracked with creating the
stand-alone player and replacing the parsers.

I have resurrected this work and put it in svn. It can be found at

        <http://openvrml.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openvrml/branches/script-modules>

I'm pressing forward with bringing the Script node Java stuff online.

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