Re: [Jmol-developers] crystal structure unit cell axis

[Christoph S. <ste...@ic...>]

Bradley A. Smith wrote:

 
> I don't recall either. For about a year, I have been the only person doing
> any development, and even I haven't had time to do much. As you noted, there
> hasn't been another release because not much has changed.

If you consider that porting to the CDK is targeted since the good old 
day of Dan Gezelter writing emails :-), then a lot of work has been done 
- probably unnoticed - just because the CDK develops at a constant pace.
Admittedly, JMol is a pretty nice application as it is, and the decision 
to finally rewrite it based on a library, does not come easy at hand.
However, I think, the time has finally come. I have now two full time 
programmers working on my NMRShiftDB project, which is an open-access, 
open-submission, open-source database for 2D and 3D molecular structures 
and their NMR data. The web- and stand-alone-client frontends for this 
database urgently need a nice 3D viewer, which, needless to say, should 
be based on the CDK for simplicity reasons.

Since Egon just started working on a Java3D-free display module for the 
CDK he can be sure to get any help from our side that is needed. This 
display module will be the basis for a CDK-based 3D application and 
applet and I would feel good if we could call it JMOL, once it is in a 
reasonable shape.

Cheers,

Chris

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