FYI, see https://chemapps.stolaf.edu/swingjs/site/swingjs/examples for
evidence of our progress. The most interesting one there is Circuit,
https://chemapps.stolaf.edu/swingjs/site/swingjs/examples/applets/Circuit.html
a rather complex applet
https://chemapps.stolaf.edu/swingjs/site/swingjs/j2s/com/falstad/Circuit/
that transferred beautifully. Some of the others have nice sound as well!

Bob




On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jim, just noting that there are two aspects to this:
>
> 1) Running the j2s Eclipse compiler from the command line to create .js
> files (in the bin directory by default)
> 2) Running the ANT task that then puts all the pieces together into a
> functional package, including doing the Google Closure compression.
>
> I think (2) is no problem. Since there is a command-line version for (1)
> with the standard compiler, there must be some way to do this. I just don't
> know how.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You mean, being able to run an Eclipse batch job, right? Like this?
>>
>> http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.
>> eclipse.jdt.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Ftask-using_batch_compiler.htm
>>
>> I have not looked into that further. There is some chatter about that on
>> the web, but to my knowledge Zhou Renjian does not have that for j2s, I
>> think.
>>
>> Zhou? Udo?
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 1:34 AM, James Procter (Staff) <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> This is awesome news !  We are simply maintaining state with the applet
>>> at the moment, pending the move to OSGi. Keep us informed and we'll pitch
>>> in when we can.
>>>
>>> One major barrier is the lack of automation for java2js.. Has any work
>>> been done on that ?
>>>
>>> Jim.
>>>
>>> Sent from my Cyanogen phone
>>> On Jul 14, 2016 6:06 AM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jeff, Jim, Mungo, et al.,
>>>
>>> As you know, last summer I took a stab at creating a JavaScript HTML5
>>> version of Jalview. We were able to see an alignment show up, but that is
>>> about it. After a year back as department chair (no longer!) and teaching
>>> I'm finally back to working on SwingJS.
>>>
>>> This summer, two St. Olaf undergraduate students and I have further
>>> developed SwingJS, and it is looking great.  We won't have time in the next
>>> few weeks to tackle Jalview -- we are focusing on physics applet conversion
>>> right now --  but I think by the end of the summer we will have all the
>>> parts necessary to take a look at Jalview again. I don't see any particular
>>> problem, other than the fact that some of the tasks that Jalview is so good
>>> at may overwhelm JavaScript. We'll see.
>>>
>>> I'm just taking the opportunity now to re-booting that conversation.
>>> Please let me know if you are still interested in this or if it just
>>> doesn't seem like something that fits in with your future plans for
>>> Jalview.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Robert M. Hanson
>> Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
>> St. Olaf College
>> Northfield, MN
>> http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
>>
>>
>> If nature does not answer first what we want,
>> it is better to take what answer we get.
>>
>> -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Robert M. Hanson
> Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
> St. Olaf College
> Northfield, MN
> http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
>
>
> If nature does not answer first what we want,
> it is better to take what answer we get.
>
> -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
>
>


-- 
Robert M. Hanson
Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr


If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.

-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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