Javron

purpose

The purpose of this Java application is to simulate a very simple biological nevral network, by using a fairly simple graphical user interface.

background

This program was my first major undertaking in the Java world, and formed the backbone of my cand scient thesis titled: "En simulator for små nevrale nettverk".
The work on this program was started in 1996/1997, and was seemingly working before I graduated in 2000.
The code is, however, rather naive and not very professional.
Having worked with large J2EE application over the past 4 years, I am now making an attempt to reorganize the code and making it more robust.
Unfortunately I have forgotten a lot of the theory, and the docs could have been.. uhm.. better!

external software

The inner workings of Javron is built on a more or less straight Java port of Joe Strout's C++ library called "Conical"
The java source code, obviously called "Jonical", can be found here as a zipfile.
It may or may not compile, and may or may not work as expected.
ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! :-)

how to use Javron

You need a JVM (a Java Virtual Machine) installed properly. If you don't have one, you can download one free from SUN's website: here
I will not discuss further how to set up Java on your system, you figure that out yourself!

Download the Javron binary

note that this is the "old" version. The structurally new version will be made available with source code as soon as it is halfway decent.

Open a command prompt and type: java -jar javrobin.jar

If you are lucky it may even work... have fun!

 


geir a. ruud / geir.arne.ruud@gmail.com / sep 2004, updated sep 2004

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