Eran and Henry, I agree this is something we need to worry about. I've looked into the cross-compiler a little. It might work, but will require some heavy lifting on the part of someone. The other problem is that to get set up to deal with the proprietary Apple environment requires an annual fee. I don't know other people's status, but as I am getting very little credit for what I do contribute to Jmol it is hard to justify monetary as well as time investment in something like that.
I've considered working on it, if the community would be OK with charging money for the iphone/ipad version of Jmol. A fee of $2 for the program would probably be enough to recoup the monetary costs. Jonathan On Apr 8, 2010, at 6:10 AM, Eran Hodis wrote: > 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 Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow Chemistry Department gu...@uwosh.edu UW-Oshkosh Office:920-424-1326 800 Algoma Boulevard FAX:920-424-2042 Oshkosh, WI 54901 http://www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/gutow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
