Glancing through the J2SDK/JRE 1_4_0 beta2 I was reading about the Java Web Start... With the havoc about JVMs in the browser, I wonder if this technology will bring back the Java to the client in a mainainable way. http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/download-spec.html Anyone has some opinion about it? Should we as a community ask all chemistry vendors who send us stuff on CDs to include JRE with Web start (which is allowed without SUN's permission), so people on modems do not have to wait a few hours for JRE to be installed on their machines (at least it is available on Solaris, Linux, and Windoz on the Sun site). While I am often cynical about "community working together", we are loosing the common GUI due to vendor wars, and it is a pity to see all these Java applets go to a sink and us going back to the era of binaries crafted for each minor release of every operating system on the planet Earth... Jan K. Labanowski | phone: 614-292-9279, FAX: 614-292-7168 Ohio Supercomputer Center | Internet: jkl@osc.edu 1224 Kinnear Rd, | http://www.ccl.net/chemistry.html Columbus, OH 43212-1163 | http://www.osc.edu/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)