Re: [Rails-devel] tile rendering objects

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Brett Lentz wrote:

> I think you're misunderstanding.
>
> The GameTestServlet is meant to run server-side as a game server UI 
> (think CGI-style server-side processing). To allow playing games through 
> a web-page. The servlet serves up standard HTML pages.

Ok, so it is actually a client to the main server, right?

> The Swing-based UI is meant to be a stand-alone application.

It is trivial to write standalone applications that can be run as applets 
in a browser as well (although you have to sign the jar files if you want 
to do some things), so that could be an option.

For that matter, the client could be written in whatever language people 
want as long as the wire protocol was cleanly defined rather than just 
exchanging serialized Java objects via RMI, Beans or something similar.

> These are two completely separate interfaces that don't run together and 
> are more or less completely incompatible. The intention is to allow two 
> totally different ways of playing a game that uses the same underlying 
> engine (and further secures model/view separation).
>
> So, when I say that the Servlet can use SVG, I mean that in the process 
> of serving out an HTML page to the client, it could do so using SVG as 
> the content-type of the tile/map images.

Ok.

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