Developing online multiplayer card game

If you want the game to played from a website, you can write it as an applet. You can also write it as a desktop application using Swing (Swing is Sun's name for Java's graphical user interface library - it can be used to create windows and render images on the screen). You can also use somewhat of a combination of these two using Java Web Start. To render the images you will probably need to use the Java 2D API. If you want to connect the program over a network you will need to use the networking API. Fortunately, both of these are relatively easy to use. If you want a comprehensive list of classes available in the core Java API, take a look at the javadocs (which are generated from comments in the API source code), located at http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/. If you want a more general perspective on what Java can do, you can take a look at http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/.

As an example of how easy the Java APIs are to use, the following code puts a window up on the screen (the window is 200 pixels wide by 300 pixels tall, and is located 150 pixels from the left edge of the screen and 100 pixels from the top):

import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class Program {

public static void main(String[] args) {

JFrame frame = new JFrame("Window Title");

frame.setSize(200, 300);

frame.setLocation(150, 100);

frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

frame.setVisible(true);

}

}

@modia at 2007-7-12 22:03:15 >