Open AccessJava and JavaBeans for Cheminformatics
Author(s) -
A. Krassavine
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.1998.668
Subject(s) - javabeans , computer science , java , suite , cheminformatics , context (archaeology) , simple (philosophy) , usability , usable , software engineering , graphical user interface , human–computer interaction , world wide web , programming language , bioinformatics , biology , paleontology , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , history
The usability of standard HTML pages for the display of inherently often very graphical chemical information is severely limited, especially with respect to interactive manipulation of the displayed data. This is where simple images, the lowest common denominator, fail. There is a definite need for a portable and flexible mechanism for the graphical display and manipulation of chemical information in a WWW context. We believe that Java, especially the JavaBeans framework, which supplies a powerful paradigm for the communication between multiple processing tools, is a very suitable technology to solve these problems. In this contribution, we illustrate the design and use of the ChemSymphony JavaBean suite as an example of this technology.