[x3d-public] new X3D Java SAI (object model) exercise

[Don Brutzman]

Thanks for the "heads up" notification Andreas.  Yes sounds like an excellent inquiry.  8)

In years past, the X3D community spent much time to good effect aligning Script-node code and External Authoring Interface (EAI) to produce a single consistent Scene Authoring Interface (SAI).

As we now work to align DOM with X3D, and further extend SAI to become a complete X3D object model, and even attempt similar implementations across multiple programming languages, it certainly feels like we are pursuing another major unification effort.  A unified object model for X3D might be even more powerful and consolidated than those earlier important SAI successes.

Looking forward to examining functional differences you might find - questions, corrections and improvements are always welcome.  Good luck with this work.

On 8/19/2017 12:45 PM, Andreas Plesch wrote:
> As an exercise, I collected those methods provided by cobweb as a X3D browser implementation which I utilize in cobweb_dom:
> 
> https://github.com/andreasplesch/cobweb_dom/issues/26
> 
> I am trying now to identify equivalent methods provided by X3DJSAIL using the javadocs:
> 
> http://www.web3d.org/specifications/java/javadoc/index.html
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> I do not expect to find any parser methods although the ones which generate a x3d object from a dom object (parser.childElement, parser.nodeAttribute) may have general applicability.
> 
> But for the SAI ones and the field related ones there is an expectation although I am not quite sure if it is well placed. Mostly a learning exercise,
> 
> Let's see.
> 
> -Andreas

all the best, Don
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