Solarium Emulator who is available on SunSPOT purple SDK (Download Manger and additional demos) can be very useful for students or developeres which don't have physical SunSPOT yet. If Profesor decide to use SunSPOT for education purposes he can assign homework to it 
. It could be very interesting for students too.
For very quick introduction follow this entry.
1. Start up Sun SPOT Manager tool
2. Click on Solarium tab and on Solarium button -> SPOTworld Emulator should start
3. Add new virtual SPOT ( Emulator -> Add new virutal SPOT )
4. You can change a name (Right click on SPOT -> Set Name) if you want. But you should assign SPOT application by right click again ( Right click on SPOT -> Specify application jar file .. )
5. Now you can start up your application and display inputs from eDemoSensor board ( Right click on SPOT -> Display sensor panel ) [Image 1]
6. It's very useful to see output of your SPOT application ( Right click on SPOT -> Display applicaiton output ) [Image 2]
7. And in the end here is a source code of application output. SPOT applicaion you have to build and after that you have to assign it to your virtual SPOT [Image 3]
