Re: java

[Egon Willighagen <ewilligh@uni-koeln.de>]

Hi Francesco,

On Thursday 11 January 2007 17:06, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Has anyone tried to run jmol 11.0.RC4 (SourceForge)?
> Which java >=4 package? Is java runtime from debian
> repositories ok to this purpose? Or which java from
> Sun?

Sun 1.4 or better is fine.

Classpath 0.9x can run it too, but generally is slower, see [1].

> Sorry for asking about something non-free,

Jmol really is contrib, it's GPL. Since it actually compiles and runs with 
free Java tools, it could even be main already.

> though jmol 
> would solve problems of viewing (and getting geometric
> parameters) in carrying out work chemical computing.

The deb packages for Jmol 10.00 can be downloaded from:

http://debian.wgdd.de/debian/

And Alioth java a subdir for Jmol, so the pkg-java project is looking into 
it...

Egon

1.http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/FreeSwingTestApps

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