[Paraview] Newbie question

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Hi Tom,

You started well in the sense that the main page of ParaViewWeb is here:
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaViewWeb

Although, setting up a web server that use ParaView to generate
interactive 3D content requires to build the tools and most of its
dependency. On Unix type platform (Linux, Mac, ...) those steps are
easy to reproduce which is not the case on window if you never did it
before. Moreover, no-one (that I know of) ever deployed a ParaViewWeb
server on windows.
So you should consider ParaViewWeb as Unix only (server side).

If you managed to find a Linux or a Mac for your server, you will
first need to compile ParaView. I guess you should find enough
documentation on the web on how to do it. Once you achieved that, the
experience you gained during that process should help you
understanding what is written in the ParaViewWeb building page. If you
build ParaView, don't bother with the GUI and Qt part as it is not
needed for ParaViewWeb, just disable them at configuration time using
CMake.

If you need some explanation on how to build ParaView on Linux, then
post another email on the mailing list, some other community member
may be able to help.

Seb

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Tom E <tjest at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all, I'm sorry to post this, I've tried to find the answers myself but
> I'm afraid I need some remedial help.  I've been looking at the wiki pages
> and done a search here with MarkMail, but I'm afraid I need even more step
> by step instructions than I can find anywhere.
>
> My goal is to use Paraview to render a .vtk file inside a webpage so that
> others can view it and rotate it.  I found
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/ParaViewWeb_JavaScript_Introduction and I'm trying
> to get the header part set up.  I've downloaded TomCat and got that to run
> as localhost:8080, but I'm not sure how to obtain the PWService.war and
> pw-config.properties files.
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/ParaViewWeb_Building gives instructions for Unix
> but I'm running Windows XP.
>
> I'm not even sure I'm in the right place but my google searches sent me to
> cmake.org instead of paraview.org.  I'm afraid the instructions on
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install lose me completely.
> I've been trying to build Paraview with CMake thinking that was where those
> files would come from, but I'm getting errors generating it.  Honestly, I'm
> not even sure I'm on the right track at all.
>
> Can someone please walk me through the process?
>
> Thank you so much,
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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