Janko in a Jar

I decided to post a short demonstration video of that cad I made a while back. The reason is also to show what can be achieved quite nicely with Java & Swing, Piccolo 2D Scene-graph and Synthetica LAF and some SwingLabs components (TreeTable).

Maybe interesting to someone.. this app. saves and loads drawings and symbols (roughly) as SVG files which you can open directly in Ink-scape or even FireFox. Because of request of the user it also creates a full scale (with styles, embedded images and more) MS Excel files via Apache POI-HSSF project (HSSF means Horrible Spreadsheet Format )

This was basically my first application made in Java. I always thought before that Java is a clunky old language but I was and remain impressed by it. I like that although Java/JVM/JDK is HUGE it still remains pure and minimal in another aspect. For example I made whole application (which took several months and thousands lines of code) using a normal (but cool) text editor JEdit and few .bat files to compile and run it.

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 11th, 2007 at 9:08 pm and is filed under In biz mode, Just programming.