Questions: HTTPD, Java, VRML?

[Gene W Homicki]

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 | Dear Omnigroupers,
 | 1. Is the NCSA httpd the only one available for the next platform?
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	Just about all the freely available HTTPDs have been ported to
NeXTSTEP.  The best of the bunch (IMHO) is apache:

	http://www.apache.org/

It basically has all of the features of the Netscape Web server (not
the Secure server, yet...there is a company working on licensing RSA
for the SSL implementation).  If you need a proxy server, the CERN
HTTPD works quite well under NeXTSTEP as well.

You can get a list of HTTPDs from:

	 http://www.w3.org/

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 | 2. Is there going to be any support for Java under OmniWeb?
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	If not, you (or someone) could always work on porting Sun Java
code to NS.  I doubt this would be much fun.

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 | 3. Is there going to be any support for VRML under OmniWeb? If yes, 
 |    is there going to be a port of Open Inventor / Open GL for this
 |   purpose?
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	Again, if Omni isn't doing it, there is an application called
Geomview (I think that's what it is called) that runs under NS and can
(or will be able to) handle VRML.  I haven't looked at it in a while,
so I'm not sure how robust it is yet.  If you can't find it, I'll dig
up the URL.

In any event, VRML and Java are fare from ready for "prime time".
VRML is annoying in that there is not sense of "solid" objects, and
every implementation of Java I have seen is sssllloooowww.


						--Gene


PS. If anyone has any comments/qestions about any of this that does not
directly correspond to OmniWeb, feel free to respond to me directly.

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Gene W. Homicki                               gwh at spiders.com
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