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j1-2k8-mtH10: Using Kepler's Orrery for teaching Planetary Science - August 29, 2008

Kepler's Orrery is an interactive gravity simulator that composes & plays generative music while visually demonstrating the physics of gravitational attraction. http:www.art.netsimranGenerativeMusicKepler.html http:keplers-orrery.dev.java.net Not only is Kepler's Orrery a pleasing simulation for the eye and the ear, but it can be used as a powerful tool to teach gravity and how delicate of a balance our solar system is in.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/29/j1-2k8-mtH10.html

j1-2k8-mtH09: Energy and CO2 Savings with Java EE 5SE 6, Glassfish, Shoal, Groovy, SunSPOT and Java - August 27, 2008

Intelligent heating control saves not only energy (30-50%), is environmentally friendly, but increases the living comfort as well. Alone the priotirization of energy sources: solar thermal collector, wood buring stove, main heater combining with the inclusion of the weather-forecasts, contributes considerably to the energy saving. This session describes the architecture of the GreenFire project, especially: - Usage of JSR-223 (Scripting Integration) in Java EE 6 6 environment for the...
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/27/j1-2k8-mtH09.html

j1-2k8-mtH08: Underworld - the Java EE 5 Backend For Wonderland - August 22, 2008

Wonderland is an interesting 3D collaboration application. It uses the darkstar server as backend. Project http:underworld.dev.java.net goal is porting the Wonderland's communication and persistence layer to Glassfish v2 (later v3) to leverage its non-functional capabilities like monitoring, management, deployment and scaleability. In this shorttalk, especially the architecture and design, as well as, challenges, hacks, and workarounds will be discussed.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/22/j1-2k8-mtH08.html

Java Mobility Podcast 54: Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA - August 21, 2008

Jonathan Knudsen talks about his new book, Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA and his tutorial on the Light Weight UI Toolkit.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/21/javamobility-podcast54.html

Complex Table Cell Rendering Made Simple - August 21, 2008

Plain old text-only JTable cells are boring, but once you start to mix multiple types of cell renderers in a table, your getTableCellRendererComponent() method can get completely out of control. In this article, Michael Bar-Sinai offers a performant and clever alternative that looks up the needed renderer with class-based and rule-based maps.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/21/complex-table-cell-rendering.html

j1-2k8-mtH07: City of Oakland Solar Energy Promotion - August 20, 2008

The City and County of San Francisco (Department of the Environment) and Marin County are collaborating with the City of Oakland Public Works on an effort to assess and promote solar power opportunities in our communities. The City and County of San Francisco and Marin have been doing digital assessments. We are collaborating with the City of Oakland to transition from a paper-based approach to a web-based approach where much of the effort is delegated to the clientserver.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/20/j1-2k8-mtH07.html

j1-2k8-mtH06: JT Harness - Open Source Test Harness - August 15, 2008

JTHarness is an open source extensible test harness, which can also serve as a front-end for JUnit tests.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/15/j1-2k8-mtH06.html

An Introduction to the Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT) - August 14, 2008

Java ME may promise consistent behavior across devices, but not consistent appearance, which makes it difficult to create GUIs that work everywhere. The Lightweight User Interface Toolkit addresses this problem by taking a Swing-like approach and rendering all components in Java. In this article, Biswajit Sarkar offers an overview of LWUIT's functionality and design.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/14/introduction-to-lwuit.html

j1-2k8-mtH05: cqME and ME Framework Testing Platform - August 13, 2008

ME Framework is an testing framework for the Java ME platform developed as part of the cqME open-source project. A set of plug-ins for the open-source JT Harness, ME Framework provides support for application and platform quality and conformance testing needs. This mini-talk covers testing framework features, Java ME application and security models, communication protocols optimization and debugging functionality.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/13/j1-2k8-mtH05.html

j1-2k8-mtH04: How to Use the TrackBot API - August 8, 2008

This talk will cover the basics of using the TrackBot API for simulating and controlling TrackBots. It will flesh out some of the concepts covered in the TrackBotsAndGreenfoot and SunSPOTsAndTrackBots talks, although attendance at those sessions is not a prerequisite.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/08/j1-2k8-mtH04.html