MINERVA Features

A collection of small MINERVA programs to show how to exploit individual system features, e.g. regarding GUI programming, networking, program packaging, and interfacing with other software components.

HelloWorld

The MINERVA example program HelloWorld shows...

Use Parameters

The MINERVA example program UseParameters shows...

Directives

Debugger

Stepping through program execution and breaking at predefined conditions...

Arithmetic

New arithmetic functions programmed in MINERVA are used exactly ...

Constraints

Constraint Handling in MINERVA: the example is configured ...

File From Server

Accessing CodeBase (where MINERVA came from), DocumentBase (where this HTML-file is) and a named file from the server:...

AppletLoadsFile

MINERVA applets can access the local file system ...

GetURL

The MINERVA example program GetURL shows...

Client-Server with Sockets

Direct Client-Server communication using sockets....

Date

The MINERVA example program Date shows...

ExecProcess

Interaction with the Operating System, Subprocesses, Pipes:...

ExecProcess_2

Executing an synchronous process using the operating system....

GUI

Graphical User Interface elements like menubars, choices,...

GuiEvents

Event handling: mouse and function keys....

Gui Image

Display an image file in an applet:...

Interactive

A direct window to the MINERVA machine: it takes a query and...

JavaToMinerva_1

Preparing MINERVA arguments, working with Lists....

JavaToMinerva_2

Handling lists, enumeration, type testing and more...

JavaToMinerva_3

Converting a returned list into an array of Strings....

JavaToMinerva_4

Retrieving general MINERVA data structures....

JavaToMinerva_5

1 Java program executes 2 cooperating MINERVAs...

JavaToMinerva_6

One Java invokes 2 cooperating MINERVAs: Eliza vs Eliza - The Chat...

Java Applet Uses Minerva

JavaArrays

Build and use arrays of Java objects....

MinervaToJava

The use of metagen to automatically generate a ...

MinervaToJavaScript

Calling JavaScript from a MINERVA applet....

MinervaToJava_1

MINERVA + dynamically loaded Java extensions...

MinervaToJava_2

MINERVA + Java Libraries as standalone application...

MinervaToJava_3

MINERVA + Gui + Java Classes as Standalone and Applet...

MinervaToJava_4

MINERVA + Gui + Java Library + Own Library as Standalone and Applet...

Reflection

Use reflection to access Java programs on-the-fly....

Servlet

This example shows how to use MINERVA as a servlet with Tomcat/Jakarta/Apache....

JDBC

Using JDBC/ODBC to pass SQL statements to MS-Access....

Internationalization

The -encoding option used at compile time and run time:...

StartupArchive

Using *.msp and *.mca Startup Properties and Archives...