[Winners Circle]

Be Warned! On occasion you will see the *NetNote* icon which delineates problems we ran into when testing individual applets on the Mac using Netscape Navigator 3.0. Some of the typical problems we ran into were: applets not loading, applets loading but not running, previous applets showing up in the browser window and then replicating when the browser window is moved. The applets will behave differently depending on the numerous factors involved: browsers, platform, weather, etc. These are not technical problems that The Net Magazine will deal with. For further Java technical support, please refer to the newsgroup comp.lang.java.

Overall Winner

The single best applet from any category.

Winner : CYBCERONE - A Kiosk System Based on Java

Cybcerone is the result of an interactive kiosk project for the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and consists of an interrelated group of services based on the Web and on Java. For project description and white paper click here .
Mehdi Aminian, Team Leader. aminian@iisnext.unil.ch
Singularis Communications

Productivity Tools

Applets designed to provide an interface to other applications and programs for information processing. Based on user selections, a web application can return a computed or customized result. (Spreadsheets, Word Processing, Presentation Packages)

Team Winner : Access Key

This applet is based on VDSI's patented access control technology called the Access Key II(TM). The Access Key II(TM) is a one-time password generator used for extended user authentication. The Key operates as a challenge/response token, where the challenge can be read by the token optically or through keypad entry. Java provides us with the ability to present the optical challenge in a Web document, which can then be used for entry into a secure Web site.
John Haggard, Team Leader. jch@vdsi.com
VASCO Data Security, Inc.
TriNet Services
Individual 1st place Winner : Web Draw

A Web-based drawing applet.
Kang Daewoong, gothic@star.elim.n
Namusoft
Individual 2nd place Winner : JFS

JFS is a simple network file system protocol for Java applets. Because applets cannot access the local storage of the machine they are running on, any applet that wants to load or save files needs some mechanism for accessing files on the Web server from which the applet was loaded. JFS provides one way for applets to do this.
Jameson Cameron, jcameron@letterbox.com

Recurring fail to connect message.

Internet/Web Agents

Applets enabling network information retrieval, making it possible to take over a users display and exhibit a series of network resources. (E.C. Agents (Micropayment), Publishing Kits)

Team Winner : Como - Java based interactive communication

Como is a new, Java-based system that standardizes interactive communication between Internet users. It also provides a programming interface to write 'commlets' for the Como system. For complete package with latest version of the Como system look here.
Ulrich Gall, Team Leader. uhgall@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Recurring fail to connect message. For further information please refer to COMO's homepage.

Individual 1st place Winner : CyberAgent

CyberAgent is an application that searches certain real estate matching certain criteria, and to perform interactiving viewing of houses found during that search.
Dale Gass, dale@ra.isisnet.com
MKS, Inc.
Applet loads unpredictably. Recurring problems with blinking graphics. For further information please contact dale@ra.isisnet.com

Individual 2nd place Winner : MapInfo: An Interactive Map Browser

You can use this applet map to get detailed information about buildings and locations on the UBC campus, search for locations by name, or navigate through UBC's many World Wide Web servers geographically.
Djun Kim djun@math.ubc.ca
University of British Columbia

Education

Applets designed to help users gain insight. Applets can behave like scientific instruments or interpret and display input data so that students can focus on the meaning of scientific principles. With audio delivery, the resulting applet could be a model for an instructional tool. (Interactive Training, Training On-Line).

Team Winner : Turing Machine

This applet demonstrates the workings of a Turing machine.
 Kenneth Schweller, Team Leader. schweller@bvu.edu
Buena Vista University
Individual 1st place Winner : DigSim

This Java applet simulates and allows users to construct computer circuit board.
Iwan Van Rienen, ivr@bart.nl
Individual 2nd place Winner : The NPAC Visible Human Viewer

This Java applet allows you to select and view high-resolution images of 2-dimensional slices of human body, using image data taken from the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project.
 Yuh-Jye Chang, yjchang@npac.syr.edu
Syracuse University

Developer Tools

Applets designed to help users create tools for the development and deployment of knowledge-based applications. (Drag & Drop Developer TK, "Visual Java")

Team Winner : Gamelet Toolkit

The Gamelet Toolkit is a robust, scalable, object-oriented framework of classes and interfaces used for developing arcade-style video games. It provides classes for the management of several key gaming functions including animation, display, scoring, events, and drag'n drop.
Mark Tacchi, Team Leader. mtacchi@next.com
NeXT Software, Inc.
Applet appears to load properly, but then becomes static. We were unable to actually play boink or boinkaroids. For further information please contact NeXT Software, Inc.

Individual 1st place Winner : Janne Button

The JanneButton class is a class that implements an image and/or string labelled button. Also included are a set of classes to handle X11 bimaps and pixmaps (xbm and xpm). These classes allow usage of X11 bitmaps inlined in the source code.
Janne Andersson, janne@torpa.se
Torpa Konsult AB
Individual 2nd place Winner : ImageButtonApplet

This page describes a set of re-usable classes and sample implementations to create a variety of types of active push buttons with images and animation. The basic design approach was to put as much behavior as possible in classes that could be used in either applets or standalone applications, and then in applet classes which implement all the applet-specific functionality. Each class has been documented using Javadoc.
Shaun Terry, 72010.1771@compuserve.com

Entertainment and Games
Applets designed to provide an environment for entertainment purposes, providing the user or multi users with an interactive experience. (Multiplayer Net-Based Games, Encyclopedia)

Team Winner : Europa

Europa is a multi-player client-server game
 Jay Steele, Team Leader. jdsteele@fox.nstn.ca
University of Waterloo.
Alex Nicolaou is currently maintaining the official Europa Server and would like to see more people logging in there! Also, he is available to resolve problems or fix bugs for the official server.
Recurring fail to connect message. For further information please go to the Official Europa Server Site:

Individual 1st place Winner : CopyCat

CopyCat is a captivating new 3D game designed and developed by Jim Morey. The game revolves around replicating a picture created by several patterned faces of a solid object (like a cube).
Jim Morey, morey@math.ubc.ca
University of British Columbia.
Individual 2nd place Winner : Tubes

Yet another Puzzle...
Dmitri Bassarab, dima@cs.technion.ac.il
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Unlimited
Applets that don't fit into any other category.

Individual 1st place Winner : Volume Slicer Applet

Some medical imaging modalities (MR, CT, Nuclear Medicine) produce 2D slices of data through a 3D volume. These slices are often resampled into 3 sets of slices (along the X, Y and Z axes) for transmission. Using Java, the original 2D slices can be transmitted once and resampled locally by your browser on the fly. The applets read a single image that is a grid of slices from a 3D dataset. A scaled version of the original is presented in the lower right quadrant of each page.
Andrew Barclay, abb@nuccard.eushc.org
Emory University
Individual 2nd place Winner : Traffic Simulation

The applet simulates traffic flow using Java programming language. It takes advantage of multithread, a unique feature function in Java. In particular, three threads operate concurrently to represent (1) the cars, (2) the traffic flow volume and (3) the traffic lights, respectively. More important is that network-oriented Java is able to link information of real-time traffic flow from different locations, which can be used to predict and broadcast short- and long-term traffic status.
Kelly Liu, kliu@mathworks.com
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