New Oleans Meeting

GC3-- Physics Beans:Java for Physics Education

Abstract

Object Oriented Programming, OOP, allows programs to communicate with other programs if they follow certain communication standards. Two such standards are Java Beans and Active X. While Java Beans are platform independent, the Active X standard is language independent. Both types of objects have advantages and can be used to develop physics curricular material that can be embedded into HTML browsers. The Davidson Physlet library is being rewritten to take advantage of the Java Bean object model. Examples of curricular material that makes use of embedded objects will be presented.