One thing is sure,as it is now, Java has definitely some nice pluses on its side that aredifficult to ignore. In a broader context, software engineering has to manage a new formof growth. We have to accept the fact that gone are the days when Fortrancompilers were handcrafted and standards had plenty of time to catch up. Good technological design is intrinsically functional or hierarchical,a consequence of which is that sophisticated behaviour can be achievedeither by luck in the case of 'spaghetti programs' or through plug in entities. Read what is at the bottom of the screen, while the appletstarts.
Source code is also available.
Links Wavelets Longdependencies Daniel Lemire , who is a well known Canadian wavelet expert using Java. Scientific software packages available on the internet either in the formof libraries or applets .