Yayati Kasralikar

This article describes our experiences with developing a browser-based Web conferencing application with the following constraints: HTTP protocol (port 80) to broadcast and receive video/audio Broadcasters and receivers are not required to have public IP addresses Multiple users, each capable of broadcasting to and receiving feeds from many users Low-cost solution for continuous video/audio feed Java Media Framework (JMF) is used to develop the browser-based Web conferencing application. In this architecture, the client uses two JMF applets - one for capturing video/audio from a ... (more)

Model-View-Controller based Plug-able Declarative Framework

A Model-View-Controller based Plug-able Declarative Framework (MVC-PDF) will be described, in which developers use the full power of ColdFusion MX (CFMX) components to create MVC applications. The declarative nature of the framework will allow the controller and the model to be specified declaratively in configuration files, versus custom coded in ColdFusion. A MVC-PDF will allow develope... (more)

Medical Image Conversion

In this article we'll discuss the conversion of image formats using Sun's Java Image I/O (ImageIO) and the NIH ImageJ APIs. The image formats of interest are DICOM, JPEG 2000, PNG, and TIFF. These formats are widely used in medical applications; however, most of the disciplines in medicine are standardizing on DICOM. A single API, ImageIO or ImageJ, supports the reading and writing of li... (more)