Egon Willighagen wrote:
> On Saturday 07 October 2006 05:02, Bob Hanson wrote:
>   
>> What's the rationale behind having JmolApplet[0-6].jar vis-a-vis
>> JmolApplet.jar itself? Is there supposed to be some advantage to using
>> JmolApplet0.jar instead of JmolApplet.jar? I guess I was under the
>> impression that perhaps only a subset of 0-6 would load initially, but I
>> see from my server log that they are all delivered in quick succession.
>>     
>
> It should depend on the functionality used. It will first just load the 
> Jmol0.jar which, IIRC, will just show the "loading Jmol" view... after that 
> depending on the functionality used, other jars are loaded... apparently, the 
> applet you looked at when seeing which jars loaded uses a lot of 
> functionality.
>
>   

My understanding also.
But I am not 100% sure that the jars are only loaded when needed.


>> Is it actually faster one way or the other? Is there a way, perhaps, to
>> have a minimal subset of Jmol load initially, and then have other parts
>> load later?
>>     
>
> No, I think this indexing is the only way. I've never 'done' it, but I can 
> assume that a reindexing with all the refactoring might be in order... or??
>
>
>   

Yes, it could be done.
We would need to get a correct list of the minimal set of packages 
needed for :
- just showing the "Loading applet message"
- having an empty but working applet
- ...

Nico


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