JaMBW History
This section of JaMBW provides information on the facts
and thoughts that influenced JaMBW development as well as its planned near future.
It is therefore splitted in the following sections:
Past
28.3.1996
Presentation of the Proof-of-concept to the First European GCG User
Focus Meeting, held in EMBL Heidelberg and organized by GCG, Compugen, and LIGT
29.4.1996
Meeting in EMBL Heidelberg on Java perspectives
Present
15.12.1996
Distribution of the version 1.1 in "ready to run" form, freely,
by email.
28.11.1996
Presentation of JaMBW 1.1 at the first Conference of the German Java User Group.
1.1.1997
Distribution of the version 2.0, featuring local file operations
in conjunction with the availability of Netscape 4.0 for Macintoshes
1.6.1997
Distribution of the version 3.0, featuring integration using tools like
ActiveX/COM.
Future
The future of JaMBW is envisaged in term of contributions provided by various
Developers, adherence to standard quality, including new features as much as
users require and the tools allow, machine independence (that is, clean Java)
but continuous awareness of new developments (for example, ActiveX/COM). It might
happen as well that the Java efforts will be included through other Virtual
ToolSets like the NCSA Workbench, be used by Content Providers like in SRS5
and even fuse with the Biowidgets activities. Very much of what will happen
will depend on the continuous feedback from the User Community and the contribution
by the Developers.