Hi my name is Nathan and I have about 12 months Java programming experience.
I am looking to develop an on-line Poker website. I understand that a program needs to be downloaded by users and also have been getting the relevant Java Networking knowledge (sockets, RMI, Peer to Peer, RTP, etc.) but I have no idea where to start with Front-end graphics i.e. the actual display / simple animation.
Please could you offer me advice such as good books, other on-line resources, etc.
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I’m sure the others will chime in here soon, but if you’re looking for a poker game kind of thing (this is all going to happen inside the web page I take it?), then you’re looking at applets and the Java2D API, most likely.
As far as having to download something, the user does need to have some kind of Java plugin, which is included with the JRE download, which is often installed on new computers these days, But you’ll have issues with versioning and other problems. Eh, it’s a rather long-winded conversation all the versioning issues.
Anyhow, have you considered doing it in Flash instead?
A asolution to the versionign issues is to make it a webstart game.