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Re: Java LDraw/LDLite
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:45:17 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, gregw@mindspring.com (Greg Williams) writes:
> Yes, definitely if as an app would you have all the files locally. I was
> talking about an applet that would not. You don't want to have to download the
> entire zip file every time because it would be fairly large. Having
> individually compressed part files would decrease the amount of download. As
> far as making updates easier, that isn't an issue. You could run a daemon to
> autocompress the files in the directory, or you could compress the file as part
> of the processing when a request is made. We could even use a Java Servlet
> instead of perl to process the requests. I've had experience with those as
> well, and they're faster than perl scripts in processing requests.
I think the speed comparison depends on whether you use mod_perl or CGI+Perl
or a specialized Perl HTTP daemon. Of course, if the code running on the
server is Java, a Servlet is almost certainly the way to go.
> Heck, you
> could write a Servlet to render a gif or jpeg image and return that to a web
> browser without needing an applet on the client. I don't know if that would be
> too much to ask of a server, though. Todd, what do you think of that?
What would be a typical rendering time for an average model on a PIII/500?
--Todd
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| (...) There is a servlet program plugin for Apache on Linux or NT at (URL) We're using the IIS version of it on NT. It is nice and speedy for java servlets. I assume the lugnet server is Linux. (...) Hmm... how long does it take ldlite to render an (...) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Yes, definitely if as an app would you have all the files locally. I was talking about an applet that would not. You don't want to have to download the entire zip file every time because it would be fairly large. Having individually compressed (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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