Help with FRC Java

[gixxy]

We are a new team and hoping to use Java as the programming language for this years build season, however being a rookie team we do not yet have a CRIO to test with. Is there any kind of an emulator for at least Windows (but Linux would be nice too).

Also, Our Teacher Sponsor was curious as to if you could set up a visual dashboard for the Robot in Java with the FRC API. I didn't see anything in the documentation for JFrame or anything else as it seems to be based on Java ME. Could Anyone point me in the direction of either how to do this, or a way to manually enable GUIs.

Also are there any resources for quickly learning the basic syntax and such for Java, we have two people on the team who know some BASICS, but all the others know next to nothing about anything related to programming, much less OOP.


All your help is appreciated.