An open-source, java-based VST for a school term project

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Hey peeps, I'm in a software design class where each student must pick an open-sourced software to analyze and model for our semester term project.

If we don't like the prof's suggested list of software projects, we can propose our own, which got me thinking about tearing apart code for a simple VST plugin, like the TAL filter (http://kunz.corrupt.ch/?Products:VST_TAL-Filter). The only problem is it's written in juce. Edit: I didn't realize that Juce is just a C++ class development library, not another language altogether. I can do C++, so I should be cool from here on in. This will be fun!