Re: [Cdk-jchempaint] Javascript JCP

[Nina J. <jel...@gm...>]

On 22 May 2017 at 14:45, Konstantin Tokarev <an...@ya...> wrote:

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> 22.05.2017, 14:43, "gilleain torrance" <gil...@gm...>:
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> Hi,
>
> Apologies for the cross-post, but I'm not sure how many people are on the
> JCP-devel list.
>
> Anyway, it's clear that Java Applet's days are numbered.
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>
> Note that it's not only applet, but also stand alone swing application. I
> also was using it as a part of OpenOffice.org plugin where Java was obvious
> choice.
>

... JCP is also used as Java library in several standalone applications .
>From our side, it is quite a critical component in standalone Toxtree.

For a web front end -  there are other JS chemical editors out there
indeed.

Best regards,
Nina


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> There are a number of options here:
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> 1) Abandon JCP - there are other JS chemical editors out there!
> 2) Port (cross-compile? transpile?) JCP to Javascript
> 3) Re-write in JS
>
> I'm not a fan of option 1) naturally. So I'm wondering if anyone has any
> advice on 2) or 3). I note this SO question from Rich Apodaca:
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/440302/how-to-cross-
> compile-java-source-code-to-javascript
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> which has led me to various options:
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> - GWT (google's toolkit)
> - Kotlin (JVM language)
> - JSweet (uses Typescript)
> - Java2Javascript (used by Jmol)
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> However, I'm sure there are others. I will try and experiment with some of
> these - starting with JSweet - and will put the results on github. What I'm
> likely to try is just some simple vector editing written in Java and
> cross-compiled to JS.
>
> One initial problem is that to get everything into the browser, you have
> to cross-compile all the code (including CDK code) and all dependencies to
> JS. Not sure how possible that could be. An alternative might be to have a
> thin JS client with the view model and a servlet maintaining the domain
> model.
>
> Let me know if you have other ideas, or forsee any problems..
>
> Gilleain
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