Dear All,
I’ve just added an example using CustomItem to the “Killer Game Programming in Java” site at http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/. It’s in a new “J2ME” section near the bottom of the page.
I subclass CustomItem to create a scrollable messages box. I’ll be using it in later examples to display the lengthy communication between clients in a networked application.
Comments appreciated.
Hehe, I read your book allready half a year ago when I started to deal with Java games. But I made it only to the beginning of the Java3D section (limited free time). But it’s definitely a great resource! I really appreciate that you publish your book on the web.
What I missed half a year ago was a brief chapter about using OpenGL with Java.
PS: Chapter 10.5. “Prof. Bob is Ready to Answer Your Questions”, is that new? Beeing troubled with Natural Language Processing myself, I find that very funny 
Schabby,
Thanks for the kind words about the online book. Of course, I strongly encourage readers to buy the hardcopy O’Reilly book as well
As regards OpenGL and Java, the JOGL forum at this site is a really excellent resource. If you want to mix Java 3D and JOGL, then search for information about Xith.
Yep, “Prof. Bob” is a recent addition: it’s a simple example of the Java Speech API as implemented in the open source library, FreeTTS.
Hehe, of course. Unfortunately, I live in Shanghai, so there is not much a chance to get your book around here.
btw, I’m planing to visit Tailand in the next year in my holidays. Do you can recommend me a nice place to relax? (note to the mod.: this is not off-topic, it’s only not right in-topic)
Schabby,
Shanghai is meant to have several good bookstores: Shanghai East Laser, and the Shanghai Book Malls, but I’ve not been there.
I’m no expert on tourism, so I’ll recommend the Lonely Planet book on Thailand, which is what I used when I first came here.
If you want to talk more, send me e-mail directly.