[Openvrml-develop] Java SAI support patch uploaded

[Jeff D. <ig...@po...>]

This patch adds preliminary, yet functional support for Java Script
nodes. Currently, it only plays nicely with JDK 1.1, although it
shouldn't be too hard to make Kaffe work (I started out using Kaffe,
but Sun's JDK turned out to be easier to debug).

To use this, you *must* set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jdk1.1/libs/ia32/native_threads

You must also set
CLASSPATH=/the/libvrml97/source/libvrml97java/java-src

This patch handles most, but not all, of the SFFoo (in Java) => SFFoo
(in C++) conversions. It'll blow up in a fairly intelligent manner if
gets confused, and finishing them off, while tedious, is not hard.

The Browser node is totally unimplemented, as are a number of
functions in the other mostly-implemented nodes.

I seriously recommand putting this on a branch, not the main trunk
(also, I wouldn't mind CVS write access so I can debug as I go)

This is the product of 3 weeks of work, where my goal was to make
GeoVRML (www.geovrml.org) fly.

Thanks go out to SRI International, who paid me to write this, then
let me give it back to you.

Share and enjoy
-jeff