[Freddy]

I'm asking on behalf of a person who got in touch with me today.  What is needed is a JAVA based, animated avatar of some description, with the kind of interaction that is possible with Haptek and others.  This is to be joined to a chatbot, so you will recognise what is needed here.  The whole thing would be run in an applet presumably, sorry but I don't know JAVA.

I have not come across anything suitable in all this time and wonder if any of the members know of anything.

Many thanks 

[Maviarab]

Not much knoweldge of JAVA myself, but would imagine could be done easily enough, but not to the extent of Haptek, I would imagine best thing at moment would be something akin to to an MS agent.

[jurgeng]

Hi Freddy (It's me who sent you an email earlier today)...
Many thanks for your prompt reply and actions! Your suggestion to use haptek may have lead me to a solution.
I've read in the FAQs of haptek that I may use javascript to communicate between the java applet and the haptek player.
However I would be really glad if someone would suggest a solution which would only require java technology (including JavaFX).

[Maviarab]

Welcome along Jurgeng. Sorry couldnt help you in my first post, I was wondering though (not being into JAVA at all) have you had a nosey arounf their forums etc, maybe someone has already tried a similar project?

[jurgeng]

have you had a nosey arounf their forums etc, maybe someone has already tried a similar project?

I tried several forums however it seems that the java way of doing chatterbot is by 3d avatars with the use of vrml whereas I am looking for a simple 2d avatar that can provide simple but animating interaction. If I do not find a solution I will try to integrate a flash movie inside java. There is an API called JFlash that can do this. Come to that, do you happen to know of a free flash-based avatar that can move its head according to the mouse's position as in http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=f5d922d97e345aa1?