One of my first encounters with open source cheminformatics was the XYZ file viewer applet by Sun. I extended it back then with minimal PDB support for our Woordenboek Organische Chemie website (started in 1995, now extinct). This applet dates back to at least 1997, as shown by the screenshot.
You'll like this. Go to http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/plugin/developer_guide/java_js.html which describes how applet/object/embed are supposed to work and look at the examples:
ReplyDeleteEMBED type="application/x-java-applet;version=1.3" width="200"
height="200" align="baseline" code="XYZApp.class"
codebase="html/" model="models/HyaluronicAcid.xyz" MAYSCRIPT=true