This is weird. The authors turn OpenOffice.org into a spreadsheet server -- and then create a front end in Dojo with Javascript, and tunnel events from the front end to the OOo spreadsheet via a Tomcat servlet.
I feel lame when it comes to mobile phone hacking because I'm so far behind the state of the art, by at least five or more years.
The Glassfish server includes a Ruby and Rails implementation.
There's a Java Python that's well established.
So, I'm studying J2ME, and for some reason (maybe the wrong version of CLDC?) I can't use random.getNext(n). I can't specify the range of the random number. What a pain.
I wanted to avoid doing floating point math, and fell back on a C trick. To get a random number from 0 to 500:
This is a repository of "novice" articles, written with the intent of driving more traffic to the site, and getting more ad clicks. It's pretty crass, I know, but the information may be very useful.