In an earlier post, I lamented the modern difficulties in running old instances of Jmol, an example of an application program written in the Java programming language. When I wrote that, I had quite forgotten a treasure trove of links to old Java that I had collected in 1996-7 and then abandoned. Here I browse through a few of the things I found.
The collection is at DOI: 10.14469/hpc/2657. Here I track down how some of them are doing 20+ years on.
That said, many of the other links at DOI: 10.14469/hpc/2657 no longer work. In truth I am slightly surprised a few still do!
Quite possibly these screen shots may be the only visual images that can be created in the very near future, as all but very specialised web browsers drop “plug-in” (aka Java) support. So perhaps it will be RIP Java, at least for the in-browser frame mode (but certainly not for the stand-alone application mode).
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The Java *applet* is pretty much dead. Java itself is not really, but not thanks to Oracle, it seems to me.
Delving through the archives, I found this Jmol instance (using Java) from 2004. Jmol as a Java applet was released ~2002, at a time when Chime was still going strong. This interactive journal table (then associated with supporting information for article DOI: 10.1021/om049581h)) used a blend of Chime and Jmol to achieve interactivity. The Jmol (V10) still works if you use Safari.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/om049581h/suppl_file/index.html
I have tried the latest version of the Apple Safari browser in macOS High Sierra. It continues to run Jmol (Java), provided the settings are as below.
To clarify the above, support for the NPAPI plug-in architecture, which allows a Web browser to support Java applets is increasingly being withdrawn from the latest Web browsers. The latest Safari for example no longer supports this, which means that the mechanism above for enabling Java will no longer function. In March 2018, only legacy browsers now run Java applets within the browser.
Edge does not support Java applets. However, you can ask Edge to open a particular website in Internet Explorer.