Free webstart software for linux

PAR::WebStart is a Perl implementation of Javas WebStart.

SYNOPSIS

my $file = hello.pnlp;
my $ws = PAR::WebStart->new(file => $file);
$ws->fetch_pars() or die $ws->{ERROR};

my $tmpdir = $ws->{tmpdir};
chdir($tmpdir) or die qq{Cannot chdir to "$tmpdir": $!});

my @args = @{$ws->run_command()};
die qq{Failed to get WebStart args: $ws->{ERROR}}) unless (@args);
system(@args) == 0 or die qq{Execution of system(@args) failed: $?};

This a Perl version of Javas WebStart technology; see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jws/developersguide/overview.html for details.

PAR-WebStart is a helper application associated with a browser. When a user clicks on a link that points to a PNLP [PAR Network Launch Protocol] launch file (a special XML file), it causes the browser to launch PAR-WebStart, which then automatically downloads, caches, and runs the specified PAR-based application.

Data Architects, DBAs, Analysts and Designers rely on Data Modeling tools to facilitate and simplify their data Modeling efforts, while maximizing the use of their resources. The Power*Architect allows these busy highly technical resources to perform this most intricate part of their job in a fraction of the time.
Power*Architect project is an innovative Java-based data modeling tool geared specifically for Data Warehouse and Data Mart design. It allows the designer to open multiple concurrent source Database connections, create and explore profiles of the source data, drag and drop source schemas, tables and columns into the data modeling playpen, and forward engineer the resultant target database and its associated ETL template.
Main features:
- Access any JDBC or ODBC accessible source database
- Quickly create profiles of source data, including information about the size of the data in each column, maximum and minimum values, frequency distribution of values in a column, and more.
- Profile information is saved with the project, so profile data can still be used to aid off-site design sessions when it is not possible to access the source databases.
- Design the target database Data Model (Data Warehouse)
- Compare the database structure of any two databases highlighting the structural differences and generating the required DDL to synchronize
- Compare the Data Model data structures to an existing target database
- Save a snapshot of all source systems data structures in the project file, allowing data warehouse designers to evolve their target data model remotely
- Forward engineer to Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and PostgreSQL and more.
- Forward engineer ETL Templates containing source-to-target data mappings
- Invoke ETL Engine to load initial set of data into the target database
- Enable easy centralized installation and updates to many end users (Supports Java WebStart technology).
- The Power*Architect can open multiple source databases concurrently, even if they are from competing database vendors. Another key feature of the Power*Architect, that sets it apart from other data modeling tools, is that it remembers the origin of each column, and is capable of automatically generating the source-to-target data mappings.
- Whether youre building or maintaining your Data Warehouse data model, the Power*Architect will provide you a complete view of all required database structures and will expedite every aspect of your data warehouse design.
- Design your Data Warehouse in a fraction of the time with the Power*Architect.
- We look forward to showing you how!
- The Power*Architect is available now for download! The product is available for free to individuals for personal use. Commercial licensing and support are available at competitive prices. Please call us at 1-866-SQL-POWR to purchase.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a bug that caused corrupt project files to be saved.
- The handling of automatic cascading primary keys in multi-level identifying relationships now works better.
- The profile manager is now even more stable.
- It is now possible to add new database connection types from within the GUI.

XCard project is a is a French flashcard program.

Its used to help students memorize French words. It comes with several default word lists, ranging from verb lists, to vocabulary associated with airplane travel.

It has the capability to repeat lesser known words, graph a students progress, translate words to French, and to create new word lists.

It is deployed via Java Webstart, and can be run from the XCard homepage.

Spring-RCPs mission is to provide an elegant way to build highly-configurable, GUI-standards-following rich-client applications faster by leveraging the Spring Framework, and a rich library of UI factories and support classes.
The Spring Rich Client Project (RCP) is a sub-project of The Spring Framework. Spring-RCPs mission is to provide an elegant way to build highly-configurable, GUI-standards-following rich-client applications faster by leveraging the Spring Framework, and a rich library of UI factories and support classes. Initial focus is on providing support for Swing applications but a goal of Spring-RCP is to be view agnostic as much as possible.
Spring Rich Client Projects goal is to provide a viable option for developers that need a platform and a best-practices guide for constructing Swing applications quickly.
Specifically, spring-richclient seeks to:
Provide a way to build structured, highly-configurable, GUI-standards-following Swing applications faster by leveraging the Spring Framework.
Foster integration with existing rich-client-related projects where it make sense. For example, jgoodies-forms and TableLayout are two good layout managers. We dont need to develop another one.
Adhere to the principles set forth by the Spring Framework--programming to interfaces; the importance of sound OO design, documentation, and testing.
Main features:
- A command framework that provides centralized configuration of Swing actions and appropriate handler registration based on the current active view. Command configuration, as well as action bar contribution policies (to menus or toolbars), can be defined centrally and externalized in Spring bean defintiions.
- A forms data binding and validation framework, for connecting edits made in your UI controls with your domain model automatically--with as you type feedback.
- Support for multiple window management, page configuration, and view management. The concepts here are inspired by Eclipses perspective/view constructs. Views can be defined in the Spring container, associated with one or more pages, and a default page can be configured to be loaded at startup.
- Common support classes addressing various rich client requirements including: well formed dialogs, wizards, input validation (typing hints and validation results reporting), button bars,internationalization, image/icon caching, progress monitoring, UI threading (classes cleanly promoting responsive UIs), treetable/property sheet, table sorting/high-volume table updates, GUI standards builders/helpers, help/about, etc.
Spring-rich adds value for people needing to develop Swing applications and do so in a way that promotes consistent, well-designed, configurable Swing applications. The spring-rich developers strongly feel the old days of Swing apps not looking native and not being performant or web-accessible are gone with JDK1.4.2 and 1.5 and webstart.
It is our belief the only problem with Swing is that there are a limited number of higher-level abstractions available that assist in making the toolkit simpler and easier to use, and a limited number of design best practices. The goal of spring-richclient is to provide that.
Enhancements:
- [RCP-400] - jgoodies forms not included as spring-rich dependencies
- Regression bug: icons on MessageAreaPane didnt show up

Hermes is a Swing application that allows you to interact with JMS providers. Hermes works with any JMS enabled transport making it easy to browse or search queues and topics, copy messages around and delete them. It fully integrates with JNDI letting you discover administered objects stored, create JMS sessions from the connection factories and use any destinations found. Many providers include a plugin that uses the native API to do non-JMS things like getting queue depths (and other statistics) or finding queue and topic names.
WebStart demo with a simple configuration containing an embedded ActiveMQ broker and a single queue and topic. Download some example text messages and FIX messages and send or publish them to ActiveMQ.
You can get the latest stable version from Sourceforge or the latest, less stable, build from HEAD
Enhancements:
- There is a new SAP JMS plugin and demo - many thanks to Martin Grigorov at SAP for his time and suggestions.
- The EMS tutorial has been updated.
- There is a new log panel in the Tools dockable frame that lets you view log4j events. By default none are displayed but you can start, stop and clear the events. The logging levels are inherited from your log4j configuration.
- Searching for messages now includes ObjectMessage support - Hermes searches on the result of toString(). Any exceptions are logged but otherwise ignored.
- Selection of multiple objects in trees and tables has been been improved.
- Workarounds for TIBCO EMS connection factories lack of JavaBean compliance have been put in place. Hermes checks for missing matching get/set methods (EMS provides one and not the other) and uses cglib to fill in the gaps. Previously Hermes had many strange issues configuring remote EMS servers. You must still however set the username and password on both the plugin and the connection factory. See $HERMES_HOME/cfg/vars-hermes-config.xml for an example configuration. I hope to fix this shortly.
- The WMQ plugin was not correctly supporting JMS destination names with properties in, e.g. queue://Q1?targetClient=1.
- The message header property table is now sortable.
- JIDE has been upgraded to 1.8.6.01
- A new configuration option CopyProviderProperties selects whether user header properties starting with JMS should be copied, e.g. during drag and drop, to/from a file and to/from a message store. You can set this via the Options->Configuration->General dialog. Some providers seem to allow this and others do not so only change it if you know what you want.
- New configuration option on the session Use Consumer will use a message consumer to perform queue browsing. Messages will be read but not acknowledged until a timeout on the read occurs. The timeout is in the Configuration->General dialog as ConsumerTimeoutWhenQueueBrowsing and defaults to 10 seconds. This is especially useful if you have many messages on a queue (10000s) and your providers queue browser implementation retreives all messages in one large batch (e.g. JBossMQ).
- There is a new property on the WebSphereMQ admin plugin to let you set reason codes whose exceptions you want to ignore. You set the logExclude property with a comma separated list of reason codes. See also here. It is only supported from WMQ 5.3.
- Installation is now via IzPack

UICollection is a rich set of Java Swing widgets, solutions for common and not so common Swing projects, and a workflow using a graphics designer to merge all solutions into one project.
UICollection is a project that can be used in any application, commercial or otherwise. Despite being free UICollection has advanced user-interface features allowing you to create more professionial looking GUIs, faster.
There are various products which are part of this project, each brings a completely seperate component, or framework which enhances your user interfaces. All of them add to the synergy of the whole by being complementary in nature. Each can be used seperately, allowing an easy learning curve.
The core component is the designer, this is the one that binds all other components transparantly into one product. The designer is a GUI Builder with a twist; it allows you to build your user interfaces by point and click in such a way that the traditional disadvantages of code generators is taken away. Additionaly the designer itself is so easy to use that your graphics designer can use it to make drafts, or fine tune your finished products. The designer should actually be called a component of a highly-optimized, but very flexible workflow.
What binds all components is a next-generation Swing Look and Feel, the UICTheme is build for cross-platform look and feel in such a way that the feel part can be considered native. This is because of the huge amount of attention it spents on usability features that are common on the various operating systems Java supports, but still have not found their way into the core Swing distribution. All screenshots on this website will be based on the UICTheme, unless otherwise specified. Use the webstart demo if you want to get an instant feel for it.
Enhancements:
- The spinbox is no longer allowed to get higher than its textfields preferred height.
- The GroupBox is repainted after calling setEnabled (which is needed to update the ghosted state).
- Double number values were made to work.
- UICCalender was made to work with Java 5 and 6.

Kokua project is a Trade Wars 2002 assistant with an emphasis on being fully customizable.
Kokua is a Trade Wars 2002 assistant with the goal of being very easy for the user to customize for their use. Every screen is defined in user-modifiable XML user interface files similar to HTML. All actions are written in JavaScript, eliminating the difference between scripts and normal application behaviors. The initial emphasis of the project is to explore visualization and data mining.
Kokua was born out of a desire for an open source, Linux-compatible TW2002 helper, and a frustration working with the J-TWAT source code. J-TWAT was/is a great helper, but in an effort to build the ultimate helper, code organization was sacrificed to make way for development speed making it difficult to build upon. While Kokua borrowed many of the ideas of J-TWAT (like stream lexing triggers), Kokua is a complete rewrite. To encourage development, pains have been taken to cleanly separate functionality and push as much code into external scripts as possible. While JavaScript is used by default, many other scripting languages can be used. Furthermore, all Trade Wars-related code has been separated from the main application to support other text-based games or applications.
Kokua is NOT an attempt to create the ultimate TW2002 helper or scripting platform. Helpers like SWATH and scripting proxies like TWXProxy have way more features than Kokua will probably ever have. In particular, Kokua will not focus on scripting and but look to closely integrate with scripting proxies such as TWXProxy. Not that Im against the idea of a fully-featured TW helper, I just dont have time or motivation.
Main features:
- Easy to fully customize every screen
- Every application action modifyable, eliminating the difference between script and application action
- Browsable, customizable sector visualization
- Quick query of information using an XPath-like engine
- Unified chat interface that supports other protocols like IRC and IM (coming soon)
- Statistics display to highlight game metrics
- Easy macro record and playback ability
- Customizable reports, including port pairs
- Scripts can create and control complex gui forms
- Auto-update capable (when used with WebStart)
Enhancements:
- This release addresses major stability issues and adds better integration with TWXProxy.
- Operations such as pair port trading and Steal-Steal-Move (SSM) can now be executed with a single click.
- The sector map is now more stable and accurate.

Raplas objective is to provide an easy-to-use resource-management system.
The primary target of the program were universities. Rapla allows coordination beetween the lectures and the administration. It offers multiple ways to view the available resources and schedule the events.
Rapla started as a simple room booking software, but in the last five years it evolved into a fully configurable framework for event and resource-management.
Developement has started in a practical course at the department of Computer Science III at the University of Bonn, Germany.
Main features:
- Multi-user, multi-languages (6 at the moment)
- Conflict-management
- A printable calendar
- Grouping of appointments in reservations
- Extensive appointment manipulation (repeating, exceptions)
- support for periods
- Hierarchical categorization of objects. Do you have to model your hierarchical organsiation?
- A fine-grained permission model. You can set who can access what, when and how.
- Customizable resource-, person-, and event-types. You can create your own types, with their specific attributes.
- Usable in client-server mode or as standalone application.
- Startable with webstart or as an applet (Java Plugin needed)
- Stores data in xml-file or with the help of sql-database
- Email notification on resource allocation
- Plugin architecture (with currently a dozen plugins available)
- HTML Read-only month-,week- and day- view. You can specify with filters what and how it should be visible to the outside.
Enhancements:
New features
- Added paste as functionality
- Added Data Source (use datasource tag instead of driver, username and password to enable datasource)
- New plugable Main menu when you go on the first site of the web version
- You can now enable a list of all exported calendars in the main menu of the web version
- Show Navigation bar is now a parameter when exporting calendars to html
- You can now start rapla under windows with rapla.exe
- New service wrapper for starting rapla as a server under unix, osx and windows (load rapla_as_service.zip)
- There is a raplabootstrap.jar for starting rapla with a double click on most systems
Changes
- New icon for "new weekly event"
- In source version data.xml and config files are moved to webapp folder
- New jetty is used
- If jndi doesnt work. Authe
Bugfixes
- You can now export filename with characters that need to be url encoded
- Fixed Bug with special characters during load under tomcat or jetty
- It is now possible to have working times with a higher start hour than end hour e.g. 20:00 - 04:00
- [ 1593336 ] even though restricted, user can create conflict by dragging
- Workaround for bug in 1.6 that doesnt render the print dialog correctly when displayed for the first time
- [ 1571870 ] Display Japanese Characters
- [ 1555022 ] TimeField cant instantiate for "CH" locale
- Notification mail handles removes correctly
- You can use Japanese Characters in html
- If an authentication store (e.g. jndi) doesnt work Rapla will still remain usable with the original logins. But not for the jndi users