Re: [Jmol-developers] question about drawing and multiple applets on a page

[Bob H. <ha...@st...>]

That's good. So do you think the extremely slow multiple load time is 
due to something else? We need to look into this. Some experimentation 
might give some hints.

Miguel wrote:

>>Could inter-applet communication be used to have one
>>calculation/controlling applet draw molecules into "minimal" viewer
>>applets?
>>
>>I'm wondering if we can solve the "multiple applets on a page causes
>>VERY slow page loading" problem by loading just one major piece and a
>>bunch of very low-budget accompanying applets.
>>
>>This seems to me to now be the ONE major disadvantage to using the Jmol
>>applet vs. using Chime. With Chime you could have as many windows on a
>>page as you like, and it all loaded just as fast as one, because the
>>single already-loaded plugin was controlling all windows. The question
>>is whether there might be an applet-equivalent of this.
>>    
>>
>
>Brief comments ...
>
>The code for the classes themselves gets shared across all instances. That
>is, the .jar files only get downloaded once and the .class files only get
>loaded into memory once.
>
>(note that 'static' class member variables are shared across all java
>processes ... and therefore must be treated with care in order to avoid
>race conditions)
>
>I think that the browser has quite a bit of overhead for each applet ...
>unfortunately.
>
>
>Miguel
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