Technical Aspects

JavaGrins is a LiveConnect-enabled Java applet that currently runs on Netscape Navigator 4.02 and above.
JavaGrins needs both Java and JavaScript to be enabled on the browser.
The applet is under 130k and needs ~15 seconds or less to start up, depending on the version of Netscape and your machine performance.
The applet currently does only SMILES. In future releases we may include SMARTs capabilities.
JavaGrins loads on demand from the web-server which will also need to run a dayutilserver server program. Dayutilserver will be sold as a licensed product from Daylight.
JavaGrins is not currently a JavaBean nor is it based on the new Java Graphics framework (Swing aka JFC). This is because

we would like to see both JavaBeans and JFC mature both in developer and user environments prior to their usage.
we would like to see JFC become a part of the browser prior to deploying it. (mainly keeping support requirements in mind)
The current interfacing technology (LiveConnect) enables more communication capabilities with other web technologies (plugins, cgi-forms, JavaScript and Java applets) at a lower support cost than a bean framework can.