Useful Links and Tools/title> <LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="style.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA=screen> </head> <body bgcolor="white"> <table border=0 width = 610 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0> <tr><td class="header">Useful Links and Tools</td></tr> <tr ><td class="subheader" align="right"> <a href="research.html">research page</a></td></tr> </table> <table border=0 width=600><tr><td> <H2> Java Packages </H2> <DIV CLASS=inbody> I find that these libraries greatly help with Java development. <p><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">Log4j</a> is a mature, full-featured logging package. I've been using it for a long time, but if you don't already know it and don't need its extended functionality, you might want to consider the new <code>java.util.logging</code> package.</p> <p>The <a href="http://hoschek.home.cern.ch/hoschek/colt/">COLT Libraries</a> provide a wide range of classes for high performance and scientific computing in Java. I primarily use the matrix classes. The utility classes provide common data structures based on primitive arrays (such as DoubleArrayList) which are also extremely useful.</p> <p><a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jigs/jigs/src/edu/whitman/halfway/util/"> Brendan's Util Package</a> contains lots of small bits of code that I use frequently, in particular methods for working with the primitive types, Strings, and Files, as well as a few gui components.</p> </div> <H2> AI and Planning Software </H2> <DIV CLASS=inbody> I'm just beginning to look around for software that might be useful for my planning research. For motion planning, the <a href="http://msl.cs.uiuc.edu/msl/"> Motion Strategy Library</a> and the <a href="http://robotics.stanford.edu/~mitul/mpk/">Motion Planning Kit</a> both look interesting.</p> </DIV> <table width = 610 bgcolor="#aaaaaa"> <tr><td>Page created and maintained by <a href="mailto:brendan.mcmahan@cs.cmu.edu">Brendan McMahan</a>, last modified 7/19/2003.</td></tr> </table> </body> </html>