Applet Collections

JavaZone
A rich applet and script resource with lots of stuff to download.

Java on the Brain
A PhD in Numerical Analysis at the Adaptive Methods group at the Department of Scientific Computing, Uppsala University in Sweden has a nice collection of home-grown applets.

PotatoLand
Just when you think you've seen it all, along comes a site like PototoLand to blow your mind. Visit the site, and take a look at some of the applets on the site. Just make sure you're sitting down!

Artificial Intelligence/Lifeforms

Biomorph Breeder
How about using Java to evolve trees into animal forms? Based on the biomorph concept described in Richard Dawkins' book "The Blind Watchmaker", this applet lets you experiment with breeding artificial creatures called biomorphs, causing them to gradually evolve into a diversity of forms.

Simulated Predator Prey Ecology
This applet creates a simulation of predator/prey ecology. A spinning doughnut displays the predator/prey info, as does a grid at the top left of the applet. This is a great educational use of Java, and the author has even released the source code!

The Virtual FishTank
Computer Museum visitors walk inside a virtual 2,200-square-foot undersea world known as The Virtual FishTank™. The exhibit enables visitors to create and interact with their own virtual fish using, what else...Java!

Langton's Ant: A Cellular Automaton
Interactive implementation of Langton's Ant - a very simple cellular automaton which nonetheless exhibits behaviour that is currently baffling mathematicians. After about ten thousand moves the ant locks into a cycle of 104 moves which causes it to build a broad diagonal "highway."

Astronomy at Work

Navigate the Venusian Surface using Java
The Digital Interactive Venus Atlas (DIVA) provides a Java-based interface to the image archive from NASA's Magellan mission to Venus by means of an interactive user-navigable radar map of the Venusian surface.

Control the Hubble!
NASA and the Hubble team have made a public demonstration available so you can run the Java-based Control Center System environment. This demo provides a glimpse of the data that scientists utilize in their work with the Hubble.

Celestial Sphere: The Web's Virtual Planetarium
If you're into astronomy, or just want to see what the stars and constellations look like from any particular coordinates, you simply must check out this outstanding applet.

Keep an Eye on Santa
From NASA Now you can use the same technology which keeps track of the satellites to keep tabs on where Santa Claus is at any given moment!

Follow the Paths of the Satellites
From NASA J-Track lets you choose from a fairly large list of satellites, and gets you started by selecting a few for you. Just select the category of satellites you are interested in, or if you are really adventurous, try J-Track 3D.

Track the Space Shuttle
From NASA This is NASA's most popular J-Track page which is used to track Mir and the Space Shuttle. Hubble, UARS, and COBE are here as well.

Chemistry at Work

Virtual MSC Java Chemistry
CalTech-affiliated site presents material design and computational chemistry.

Commercial

JaMS: Java Mail Server
JAMS is a fully functioning SMTP mail server written entirely in Java. It supports 3rd party plug-ins for mail filtering.

Appwerx Applets and Servlets
Commercial catalogue site with lots of example applets and servlets.

1 Cool Button Tool
Easy Java button tool for non-programmers. Examples and download site.

ProBeans BeansDesigner 1.0
The Graphical Bean Designer creates graphical beans and generates the Java Code directly in the class.

jMYRIAD
jMYRIAD is a Java™-based view, print and redline software for image and native CAD drawing formats. Unlike plug-in and plug-in-enabled programs, jMYRIAD is 100% browser-served.

Games

Revenge of the Z-Machine
Remember those InfoCom games from the '80s? Here are a number of games and resources based on a Java Z-machine interpreter.

The Schwatown Midway
Uniquely designed 2.5D virtual reality adventure with games, chat and more.

Dungeon: Venture Into the Dungeon
If you like RPGs, (Role Playing Games), then you'll want to venture into the Dungeon and see if you have what it takes to make it to the top! Like an online Dungeons and Dragons!

Government at Work

Spatial Relations: Putting Geodata and Documents on the Same Map
A profile of San Diego Gas & Electric's new web-based mapping and land records management system, which uses Java and COM to give users a global view.

California Assembly Democratic Caucus Uses Java
The California State Assembly Democratic Caucus recently launched a news-style web site which offers daily news updates, events, hot topics, feature stories, and other current information, made possible by new Java database-driven technology.

Graphics at Work

Java Favicon Generator
What is a Favicon.ico file? In Internet Explorer 5.0 and above, you can customize the Icon next to your bookmarked web site to be your own customized logo. Hence, when people look at their bookmarks they will be drawn to your web page because of the beautiful logo next to your bookmark. Favicon.com provides a FREE On-Line Icon Generator (creates favicon.ico files) that you can use to generate Icons for your website!

GifGenerator
GifGenerator is a free image generating service. You choose the colors and GifGenerator does all the hard work, and generates a range of button style images in the colors you want.

Java for Professional Photographers
This innovative new applet allows for Professional Photographers to shoot a wedding (or any event) and then provide the initial photos to their clients for viewing over the Internet. Not only does the applet display their client's photos, it allows the client to visually design and lay out their own album and then order it online.

Paint Your Own Pottery!
Commercial site, with On-Line painter applet of pottery...Users can then email their artwork to the company, and themselves, and be added to the growing gallery of art.

Mathematics at Work

Visualisation de surfaces
A french site with LOTS of mathematical visualization applets.

The Non-Linear Lab
Blair Fraser has created an excellent site covering many aspects of chaos and appliations of nonlinear math. The site has lots of interactive Java applets to illustrate concepts and allow users to experiment.

Economic and Game Theory Diversions
David K. Levine, a professor of Economics at UCLA, has a few applets which demonstrate some interesting concepts of game theory.

Meteorology at Work

WeatherLabs
There's Java behind those clouds! WeatherLabs incorporates meteorological and atmospheric science into portable Java objects in component form which represent the latest weather conditions.

The QuakeMap Project
QuakeMap software displays earthquake activity near your home and around the world using detailed relief maps and on-line connections to local and national earthquake centers. And their free Java applet actually displays earthquake activity for last 3 days with 15 minutes delay!

Physics at Work

Java Applets for Quantum Mechanics
Several different applets illustrate some difficult concepts.

Transmission Calculator
ZTurboRoadster.com's Design Studio has a Java applet that graphs the relationship between engine rpm and vehicle speed. It also includes information about transmission and rear differential gear ratios of various Z Cars.

Bullet Muzzle Energy Calculator
Muzzle energy is calculated by the formula E=MV2/450400. That said, now you can use this tool to figure out the bullet muzzle energy of a bullet of any grain size and velocity.

Other Sites

Virtual Radios
A set of cool Car Radio simulations from Blaupunkt.

Numfield Game Strategy Competition
The Prisoners' Dilemma is a cornerstone of Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence. This site houses a competition based on a novel game, Numfield , which is based on this principle. Programmers are encouraged to submit their own strategies.

Smashing Pumpkins with Java
GMV Network recently announced that the first concert of The Smashing Pumpkins new tour at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit, was successfully broadcast live over the Internet to nearly 100,000 viewers using what else? Java!

JustEdit Plus™ - Edit Your Web Pages using Java!
JustEdit Plus™ is a Java applet offering manual and automatic editing of Web pages anytime, anywhere, using only a Web browser. And it doesn't use server or client side applications, CGIs or plug-ins!

NetWriter, the Shared Yellow Pad
NetWriter is a shared Yellow Pad which works through firewalls, and just requires a Java enabled browser! Share your jots with your friends and colleagues as you chat!

Missing Children Java Banner Link
Join thousands of individuals who are already helping the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children distribute photographs of missing children by participating in the Web Links Project. A Java applet displays the images of missing children, info about them, and provides a method for users to leave a message about the missing child.

BizTone.com: Applications for Rent
Are rentable applications the wave of the future? Using Java, BizTone has created an Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) suite, an approach to enterprise applications delivered as services over the Internet.

Visually Track a Flight Using Java
From TheTrip.com Using this Java-based applet, you can find out about current flights between major cities within the United States. The applet shows real time flight data of flights that are now flying, have recently flown, or are yet to take off.

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