SEEKING IDEAS FOR A SMALL PROJECT

I am planning to do a small project in JAVA programming this winter to hone my JAVA skills but I can't seem to set my eyes on anything.
please recommend a few good projects along with their descriptions.
It should also have some practical aspect.

Or a solitaire, you know, that balls-in-holes thing.:) What kind of solitaire have you been playing?? :D
@OP:
A small project I sugest is something you can learn much on some technology out there. At the end you need to know these technologies to get (a better) job.
Some cool technologies I have seen out there at the moment are Hibernate, Struts, Spring, etc. But trying to learn these technolgies does not mean you have to make somethng that makes sense in the end of the day, but just something to learn how thing work ... in short something to play with.
Further and cooler technologies out there (not hard to say) involve no codeing at all. Take Ant, Cruise Control, Maivem, etc. This are all technologies that will teach you how to set up a project, and believe me you could be needing those when coming to work somwhere.
Also very intristing to play with there are JUnit, JMeter (NFR Testing). I Guess you heared about the first one, the other one I only got to know recently, and believe me it is very noce to know how to work.
In short my above comments mean do not just start doing a project right forward unless you still do not know anything on J2SE, in which case again I would sugest for you to create your own set of example on IO, Sockets, RMI, Swing, etc. But learn technologies. No one cares to see in your CV, "I did a personal project that does so and so" unless the so and so is something realted with NASA. But everyone is interested in having someone that say "I know this technology and the other"
However, if you decide to ignore all the above of my comments and still want to do your own project, then my sugestion is at least read UML, and build a class diagram first. At least you would learn something on program design as well.
regards,
sim085

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