How is CML likely to develop?
CML is offered as a way forward in SGML and Object-Oriented systems for the molecular community. My intention is to freeze the current version (1.0) for a period. The ( Open Molecule Foundation is supporting CML and we are building a community of users. We are especially interested in applications from people developing molecular software and do not intend it to be seen as a competitor to existing systems. JUMBO is a free enabling tool rather than a product. The philosophy is that collaborators develop their systems to be compatible with the CML architecture. Some may also use JUMBO (or its java classes) as components of their system, but this is not required. They develop their own applications by extending rather than modifying and for this reason CML itself may not be edited nor be redistributed. In this way we hope to avoid the army of mutant files that are so common in molecular science. Just as there is no single software package for SGML (or HTML) there should not be a single on
