> Could inter-applet communication be used to have one > calculation/controlling applet draw molecules into "minimal" viewer > applets? > > I'm wondering if we can solve the "multiple applets on a page causes > VERY slow page loading" problem by loading just one major piece and a > bunch of very low-budget accompanying applets. > > This seems to me to now be the ONE major disadvantage to using the Jmol > applet vs. using Chime. With Chime you could have as many windows on a > page as you like, and it all loaded just as fast as one, because the > single already-loaded plugin was controlling all windows. The question > is whether there might be an applet-equivalent of this.
Brief comments ... The code for the classes themselves gets shared across all instances. That is, the .jar files only get downloaded once and the .class files only get loaded into memory once. (note that 'static' class member variables are shared across all java processes ... and therefore must be treated with care in order to avoid race conditions) I think that the browser has quite a bit of overhead for each applet ... unfortunately. Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
