goings on...

So I've been busy this last week getting my feet wet (or re-wetting, as the case may be) in several disciplines that will prove useful for upcoming full-fledged dev work. The disciplines are: Java Swing, Java Web Start, JXTA (a peer to peer framework) and Eclipse 3.0. My plan is to write a very rudimentary IM client that is deployable over web start to demonstrate my ability to create an app using the aforementioned disciplines. This is taking longer than it must because I'm working on fully understanding every component that I'm using, not merely getting it to work (cutting and pasting code, etc.) I also want to make sure that the little demo app I'm creating is perfectly cross-platform out of the box (or at least as cross platform as the latest Java runtime allows) Screenies to follow...