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From the announcement of the new release of Chemical Markup Language, and other discussions on the list it seems that Java is becoming an integral part of the chemical web. However, it appears that moving down this road could exclude many people from our sites.

The use of the web is changing slightly as more companies make use of intranets and hence have more control over the type of applications and content of pages that their users are viewing. We have found during the development of ChemSymphony, http://www.cherwell.com/cherwell/chemsymphony that much of the interest has come from companies wishing to use the product internally and therefore using the cross-platform benefits of Java. The speed of compilers at the present time means that internal use will provide better results than relying on bandwidth issues. The security problems of Java have been discussed at length on a number of forums but there are many built in security issues that make Java a secure web development language. However, I do not believe this will be problem in the future. Now that there are a number of applications in Java from the main software vendors, the issue of security will disappear. Best wishes Nick --- --- Dr Nick Lynch | e-mail: nick@cherwell.com Commissioning Editor | Phone: +44 (0)1865 784812 Cherwell Scientific Publishing | Fax: +44 (0)1865 784801 Oxford OX4 4GA, UK | http://www.cherwell.com/cherwell --- --- ----- 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)