[Cdk-devel] jmol on Mac OSX+jvm 1.4.1_01

[Miguel <mt...@mt...>]

Apple recently released java 1.4.1_01 for OSX

I had a chance to take a brief look at it. For Jmol it looks like 'one
step forward & two steps backwards'.

One step forward
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Running the Jmol application performance seemed better. I did not do any
testing to quantify this ... it just felt less sluggish.

I only ran the cvs HEAD development version of the jmol application, and I
did not do any extensive testing.

Two steps backwards
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The Jmol Applet does not load. Neither the cvs HEAD development version
nor the cvs b6 version 8 release candidate. I think that I only tried it
under Safari.

Our code never even gets loaded it dies with an error inside the apple
framework with an UnsatisfiedLinkError

I have filed a bug report with Apple, #8423116. But, since Apple has
*never* responded to *any* bug report I have ever filed, I am not holding
my breath.

Hopefully other applets will have the same problem and Apple will get
around to fixing this issue some day.

Miguel