ACME Java - Software

All of this is completely free for any use, educational commercial or whatever. I do have to earn my grocery money, though. I'm available for consulting, and would be very interested in work that builds on these Java utilities. And of course if your company wants to sponsor ACME Labs with equipment or large cash donations, that would be ok too!

This software is written for JDK1.0.2, but with one exception it also compiles under JDK1.1. You'll get a lot of warnings about deprecated methods, but it'll work. The only exception is StubToolkit, where I had to use some of the internal sun.* classes.

Applets:

• Anim - stripped-down animation applet
• Rectangle toy 1 - a simple animation applet
• Rectangle toy 2 - a much faster version
• Spline fun - colorful moving splines
• Status - a simple status display for your Java virtual machine
• Img - alternative to HTML <IMG>
• Phoon - show the current PHase of the mOON
• FontBrowser - displays info on the available fonts

Applications:

• WebCat - fetch URLs and write them to stdout
• WebList - make a list of the files in a web subtree
• WebCopy - copy a remote web subtree to the local disk
• WebGrep - search a web subtree for a pattern
• WebPost - post a web query and write the results to stdout
• ToPpm - dump out an image URL as PPM
• ToGif - dump out an image URL as GIF

Utility classes:

• All classes in the Acme package.
  • Acme.Fmt - a printf-like formating class
  • Acme.Utils - random static utility routines
  • Acme.Spider - a web-robot class
  • Acme.MediaTracker - slightly enhanced MediaTracker
  • Acme.MainFrame - run an Applet as an application
  • Acme.Application - superclass for embeddable applications
  • Acme.ApplicationApplet - run an Application in an Applet
  • Acme.Psg - a PostScript-like alternative to the Graphics class
  • Acme.Serializable - el-cheapo object serialization
• All classes in the Acme.JPM package.
  • Acme.JPM.Filters.RGBBlockFilter - more efficient RGB image filter
  • Acme.JPM.Encoders.PpmEncoder - write out an image as a PPM
  • Acme.JPM.Encoders.GifEncoder - write out an image as a GIF
  • Acme.JPM.Decoders.PpmDecoder - read in an image as a PPM
• All classes in the Acme.Widgets package.
  • Acme.Widgets.ImageLabel - an image label
  • Acme.Widgets.BorderPanel - a panel with a border around it
  • Acme.Widgets.BusyBox - a busy box
  • Acme.Widgets.WarningBox - a warning box
  • Acme.Widgets.YesNoCancelBox - a yes/no/cancel box
• All classes in the Acme.Crypto package.
  • Acme.Crypto.DesCipher - reasonably fast implementation of DES
  • Acme.Crypto.IdeaCipher - reasonably fast implementation of IDEA
  • Acme.Crypto.BlowfishCipher - reasonably fast implementation of Blowfish
  • Acme.Crypto.ShaHash - SHA - the Secure Hash Algorithm
• All classes in the Acme.Serve package.
  • Acme.Serve.Serve - minimal Java HTTP server class
  • Acme.Serve.servlet.Servlet - the base servlet class
• All classes in the Acme.Nnrpd package.
  • Acme.Nnrpd.Nnrpd - multi-threaded caching proxying NNRP daemon
  • Acme.Nnrpd.NewsDb - API for netnews database backend
• Fetch the entire Acme.* package.

Other:

• JavaWrapper - shell wrapper for Java applications
• Javac - run the Java compiler, and also generate a method signature file
• JavaClass - figure out the Java class name for a given filename
• JavaSig - generate method signature files
• jd_conv_comm - convert Java doc comments from /// style to /** style