[x3d-public] Moving away two language solutions for X3DJSAIL.

[John Carlson]

I recently discovered that OpenJDK 14 supports jjs on Linux, so I have hope
that nashorn will be carried forward by OpenJDK!

Has anyone heard news one way or the other?

Woohoo!   X3DJSAIL-JS is back on Linux!

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 5:51 AM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been planning to deprecate pythonSAI.  This is the python API that
> uses pyjnius to access X3DJSAIL.  This is because the web3d consortium
> has come out with their own SAI candidate x3d.py, which is much better
> documented and uses more features from X3DUOM.  Not only that, I don't
> think that pyjnius works on Linux very well!  What I plan on doing is
> moving my PythonSerializer.js towards using x3d.py.
>
> In general, there's some dissatisfaction with using non-Java languages
> with X3DJSAIL.  Nashorn got tossed by Oracle, and the npm java package
> likely requires an old version of python for node-gyp.
>
> The good news is, we're coming out with new, one-language solutions.
> Not only x3d.py, but there's X3DOM and X_ITE for JavaScript.   Also, the
> es6x3d project was started by me.  Es6x3d offers classes and new get/set
> methods compatible with es6. Meanwhile GraalVM is still around in the
> short term for Nashorn folks trying to migrate.  If you need a
> conversion from X3D JSON or X3D XML to a particular programming language
> or encoding and can't stomach XSLT, let me know!  I don't mind
> volunteering on non-X3D projects, but I prefer ASCII or UTF-8 encodings!
> I already have X3D JSON <-> STL and PLY -> X3D JSON in mini prototypes.
> Is anyone doing AMF yet?  Looks like there's a lot more interest in STL
> than AMF!
>
> For my STL -> JSON project, does anyone have experience with inverseCSG
> or CSGNet?  Thanks! https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.11393.pdf
>
> John
>
>
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