After going through some of the code we need to discuss the coding standards. There is a variety of different standards here, and jME is to follow the Sun Coding Standards: http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html
So, please in the future meet these standards. This is not a reflection on one standard being better than another, but just keeping the entire API consistent. As this is a Java project we are following the basic Java standards, nothing fancy.
I will be going through code and fixing those items that fall outside of the standards.