The Java Art Gallery 2008

The Art Gallery this year is better than ever, with a high degree of polish and some very ambitious projects, because the event was two weeks long, and the competition was particularly fierce.

Click on a picture to have it delivered via Java Web Start, or click on the title underneath for an executable jar file.

Games

	Planets		Underwater Peril		Balloon Buster		Master Thief
	Tile-Team		Boulder Dash		Asterdodge		Street Racer
	Save The Planet		Space Invaders

Puzzles

	Mouse Maze		Lights Out		Nerdcount		DartMare
	Tower of Hanoi		The Tiles of Fail		Whack-a-Nerd		Picture Slider
	Lights Out

Relaxation

	Fractality		Fractal Drawing		Kingdom of Fractals		Village Town
	3D Engine		The Daisy of Love		The Island		Virtual Tour
	Boogie Box		Cocktail Party

Java Web Start. If you click on a picture, the program is downloaded and run using Java Web Start. JWS is a helper program which downloads and installs Java applications painlessly. You can get it in several ways:

• On your own PC, install a recent version of the JDK java compiler, which automatically installs JWS too.

• On your own PC, download and install JWS yourself by visiting The Java Web Start Page.

• On a Linux workstation, type the command javaws-install, which will change the .mailcap and .mime.type files in your home directory so that netscape knows where to find Java Web Start.

• On a Solaris workstation, type the command javaws-install, which will change the .mailcap, .mime.type and .dt/types/javaws_launcher.dt files in your home directory so that netscape knows where to find Java Web Start.

Jar Files. You can click on a title under a picture, and run the program with the jarfile application. Failing that, shift-click or use right-mouse-menu on the title and download the jar file, e.g. ab1234.jar. You can run the program in the jar file with the command java -jar ab1234.jar. On windows, you should be able to just double click on the executable jar file, or if not, associate the command javaw -jar with the extension .jar, and on some Unix platforms (Solaris or Linux) you may be able to make the jar file directly executable with chmod +x.