Ein abstraktes Komponentenframework für interaktive 3D-Grafikanwendungen

Even though 3D toolkits and technologies are rapidly evolving, the development of three-dimensional applications is still very complicated and hard work due to format dependencies, missing standards and lack of software engineering support. Component-based development seems to be promising, where interactive 3D software will be composed of flexible and reusable 3D interface components. We present an abstract component framework, which allows the toolkit-independent modeling of components for 3D applications. Using an XML-based framework description language and XSL Transformations these descriptions can be transformed to “real” 3D formats like VRML, as shown in an example.