[Cdk-devel] Jmol's new plugin architecture ported to CDK

[E.L. W. (Egon) <eg...@sc...>]

Hi all,

this weekend I've ported the plugin architecture I had introduced into Jmol 
last week (or so...) to CDK... This means, that Jmol's RSS plugin is now 
actually a CDK plugin, and JChemPaint 1.9.x can use it too!

It did not require that much change, but it is an important change:
in order to have Jmol and JChemPaint cooperate with CDK plugins, they need to 
implement the new cdk.applications.plugin.CDKEditBus interface... The idea
behind this interface is (hopefully, but not likele ;) similar to the EditBus 
in jEdit... i.e. it should provide a clear API to the datamodel used in 
JCP/Jmol...

The API is at this moment very ad hoc, and stupid, and only aimed to get 
things done... But, this API should be a full API to exchange changes to the 
internal data structures of the application in which the CDK plugin is 
plugged in...

Anyway, the only two methods defined in the API right now, are 
showChemFile(ChemFile) and showChemModel(ChemModel)...

Another thing is that Jmol's RSSViewer plugin is no longer just a Jmol 
plugin... I'll sort this out next week... should it go into a module in CDK? 
I guess so... Any objections against it?

A full intro on how to work with CDK plugins will follow...

Egon

-- 
PhD Molecular Representation in Chemometrics
Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry
http://www-cac.sci.kun.nl/people/egonw.html