App Development Needs

There is a strong need for a toolkit to rapidly develop apps based on Daylight's toolkits & Daycart

Requirements

• Must integrate easily into application development frameworks
• Must deal only with chemical functionality
• Must be easily extensible and alterable
• Must enable a toolkit-illiterate but language (SMILES, SMARTS,...) aware developer to easily create applications with minimal code

Options

• PC-based COM components
• Web-based components
  • Client-side - Microsoft dominated standards. Hence unreliable for the long run
  • Server-side - more dependable as only server side must satisfy requirements
    • ASP
    • PHP
    • Python
    • Java-based servlets & JSPs