From VRML97 Scripting: Java Nodes and External Authoring Interface UC Web Applications Certificate -- July 24 1997. byWojtek Furmanski and Balaji Natarajan
Defines a set of functions on the VRML browser that the external environment can perform to affect the VRML world
Using EAI, Java applets can interact with the VRML scene by accessing nodes in it using the existing VRML event model