On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Rzepa, Henry wrote:
"On the more important (from our point of view) issue, about which you had no comment, what's with the Java routine? We simply cannot, at this time, offer to our clients any resource which is manipulated by or depends on programmatic intervention from outside the corporate firewall."
The answer is that Java is implemented inside the intranet! The organisation which has been set up to facillitate this is the OMF;
(A)) This is an important option, and there are others: (B) Use java as a traditional programming language with builtin graphics (e.g. like tcl/tk) and compile and run your own programs as standalone applications. You then have the same security problems as a *.c file, or a *.exe. (i.e. if you know its history, or you wrote it, no problem). (C) Get your Java applet from someone you trust. Java/SUN is developing this approach ('trusted applets'). I would expect that major public players in this field would investigate this approach. The applets can also be encrypted so that they are tamper-proof. P.
Peter Murray-Rust (PeterMR, ) Director, Virtual School of Molecular Sciences Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nottingham University, NG7 2RD, UK; Tel 44-115-9515100 Fax 5110 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms/; OMF: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/omf/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)