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Experiences in porting a virtual reality system to Java
Practical experience in porting a large virtual reality system from C/C++ to Java indicates that porting this type of real-time application is both feasible, and has several merits. The ability to transfer objects in space and time allows useful facilities such as distributed agent support and persistence to be added. Reflection and type comparisons allow flexible manipulations of objects of different types at run-time. Native calls and native code compilation reduce or remove the overhead of interpreting code.Problems encountered include difficulty in achieving cross-platform code portability, limitations of the networking libraries in Java, and clumsy coding practices forced by the language.
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International conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality and visualisation (1st : 2001 : Cape Town, South Africa)Pagination
33 - 37Publisher
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Cape Town, South AfricaPlace of publication
New York, N. Y.Publisher DOI
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2001-11-05End date
2001-11-07ISBN-10
1581134460Language
engPublication classification
E1.1 Full written paper - refereedTitle of proceedings
Afrigraph '01: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality and visualisationUsage metrics
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