im a fairly experienced hobby java programmer and want to create a small(?) poker-related software tool.
so this thread is directed to

a) users: what would you like to have? this is the chance to tell what ure missing in the poker tool world and maybe me/the other guys like it and we create it.

some ideas i had:
- card shuffling simulator
- micro stats viewing tool for pt databases (already 75% complete)
- high-level opponent analysis (patterns,..)
- unuseful but fun analyzers like average vpip of a site over time diagrams


b) coders: i never coded something with other people i dont know over the net but id like to start a small open source software project.
i hate c++ so im only in for java apps, which of course doesnt allow some things like heads up displays. we could host the project on google code, which has wikis and subversion repository now.

so shoot whatever you think, i didnt really think much about this yet but this could get something rolling.

If you learn a tiny bit of C and read up on the MSDN docs, then you can write small wrapper functions for the some of the Win32 API functions and call then from Java via the JNI interface - this will let you create stuff like HUDs in Java (JNI is actually very easy to use too - it writes most of the code for you and just leaves you to fill in the stubs).

Juk

Did any of you ever find or create an open source poker project based on java?