I agree completely with Henry, and in fact the idea that the world might be moving away from supporting Java is a very scary thought in terms of our beloved Jmol. The analogy to Chime's demise is exactly what Jaime Prilusky, Joel Sussman and I were discussing yesterday when thinking about the iPhone/iPad lack of Java support.
Eran -----Original Message----- >From Rzepa, Henry <h.rz...@imperial.ac.uk> Sent Thu 4/8/2010 1:46 PM To jmol-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject [Jmol-developers] http://www.xmlvm.org/iphone/ If you have not seen it, take a look at http://touchpress.com/ The "e-book" contains rotating 3D models, and even Stereo (with appropriate glasses). At the risk of sounding like a broken record (what is the modern metaphor for this?), I would like to put soundings out again for eg http://www.xmlvm.org/iphone/ which is a Java to Objective C cross compilation environment for porting Java to iPhone/iPad. If you read http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/3996, the more pessimistic projections see Java (and Flash) disappearing from the desktop as well as the mobile device. Whilst this may not happen for a little while, I continue to wonder what steps the Jmol community might be able to take to protect its investment. I recollect only too well the investment that Eric Martz made in, effectively, Chime. Whilst that now has been pretty much ported to Jmol (and enhanced way beyond Chime), that was a relatively simple task compared to what might face us to move home from Java to some other environment. I am not sufficient of a programmer to be able to evaluate http://www.xmlvm.org/iphone/ and whether it stands any chance of a Jmol port. Can anyone on the list comment (and I know that iPhone is a closed, proprietary environment, but then look at the future of eg CML4Word in an equally closed environment!). -- Professor Henry S Rzepa. +44 (020) 7594 5774 (Voice); http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ & /rzepa/blog Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. (Voracious anti-spam filter in operation for received email. If expected reply not received, please phone/fax). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
