Java Internet Links
by sjl
updated Sun Feb 13 22:20:47 PST 2000
I have written a bunch of Java, and I have watched others
write Java, and I have concluded that you should not use
Java. If you are an OO purist, you should be using
Python.
If you just want to be more productive than
90% of your peers, use perl
The center of the Java Universe is at Sun.
Applet Sources
Gamelan used to be a useful applet repository
... now it is cluttered with all sorts of junk.
The Java Boutique
... Good collection of Java programs, many with source code.
Java Applet Rating Service (JARS) ... the ratings in the apples.
ACME Java
... PBM author Jeff Poskanzer has a name your can trust.
Math and Graphs
I am trying to find Java sources for a decent scientific plotting
package, with things like autoscaling, log axis, markers, zoom, and pan.
The graphing applets I have seen do not have nearly enough capability to
make them better than dumping bitmaps from an established package such
as gnuplot. The applets I've seen also look like they were fairly
difficult to code. It almost seems like we're back in the dark days of
the IBM PC before an affordable, usable graphics subroutine library was
written in Turbo Pascal.
It is amazing that there isn't something like Gnuplot in Java.
There are business graphics, and web statistics graphics, but
the work on scientific plotting has not reached the mainstream.
Net Factory
... Home of NetCharts
Jmath: HTML 3.0 Equation Rendering