[Paraview] VTK embedded models in JSP

[Dani Mora]

Hi Sebastien,

Thanks for your answer. I tried to use the trace but it seems that it does
not track the exporting process. I also downloaded and compiled the vtk kit
and I could not find the vtkpython module.

Dani.

2013/7/24 Sebastien Jourdain <sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com>

> 1) pvserver is not a web server. It is meant to run on a cluster for very
> large visualization. Which is definitely not what you are looking for.
>
> 2) The html page is the only file needed for you. The other files were
> used for development of custom web page when streaming could be involved.
>
> Regarding your question about the scripting part, it is definitely doable
> but I don't know the step on the top of my head.
>
> You can try to use the trace and see if that give you the proper python
> command for pvpython. Otherwise, you should be able to use vtkpython
> without ParaView.
>
> Seb
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Dani Mora <daniel.mora.checa at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I just started to use Paraview and I got a bit stuck. We have some JSP
>> pages where we want to embed and visualize some .vtk models. I considered
>> two options at first:
>>
>> 1- Deploy a server that will render the models. I tried to do that but I
>> found that I should compile again Paraview to start the pvserver (to enable
>> the MPI). I followed the steps here:
>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install but I got some
>> compiler errors that I have not been to solve.
>>
>> 2- Export the .vtk models into webgl (using the Paraview GUI) and embed
>> the resulting .html documents as JSP pages . This is the simple approach
>> and works so far. Regarding this option, I have two questions:
>>
>>     - When exporting from vtk to webgl, we get one HTML file, one WebGL
>> file and around 20 tiny files with unknown information. Since it works
>> using only the HTML one, what are the rest of the files for?
>>
>>     - I need this task (to export) to be automatized because it is
>> possible that we will have many models in the future. I tried to use Python
>> scripting but I could not find how to do it.  Any idea about how to do
>> it? Is there any documentation I could read? I was thinking of extracting
>> this functionality from the source code but I am looking for a 'smarter'
>> solution.
>>
>> Thanks a lot in advance, and sorry if some of the questions are very
>> basic.
>>
>> Daniel.
>>
>> PS: I am working under Windows as a constraint of the project.
>> PS2: I recently found the X Toolkit WebGL (
>> https://github.com/xtk/X#readme) that is currently working, but I would
>> like to have other options anyway.
>>
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