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A 2D game creation toolkit that relies on powerful Java technology. It looks great, easy to use and powerful. Stencyl: About Stencyl: developer info

Java Podcast : News, Interviews and more about the Java programming language. I found this excellent podcast the other day. It's excellent and really detailed. I would have preferred OGG rather than the MP3 format it uses. JavaPosse Another interesting podcast I found recently is : Software Engineering Radio : podcast for professional software developers

Project Sun SPOT Sun Small Programmable Object Technology sunspotworld: What is it? sunspotworld: Products

"Caucho Resin, a Java servlet container that provides a native Java based PHP5 interpreter. Resin can run as a replacement for Apache or lighttpd, or can work in cooperation with an httpd server." Resin backed PHP drives 4x performance improvements for Drupal Caucho Quercus: PHP in Java

The excellent jMonkeyEngine 1.0 rc1 is released "The jMonkeyEngine developers are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0 (release candidate 1) of their popular open-source Java gaming engine." JMonkeyEngine Blog: Write 3D games in Java using the JMonkeyEngine

Lightweight Java Gaming Library v1.1.2 released. Lightweight Java Gaming Library lwjgl: More info and release notes here

Java 3D 1.5.1 includes the following improvements. * Windows Vista Support * Automatic fallback to D3D pipeline if OpenGL unavailable * JOALMixer-based audio engine * Automatic mipmap generation * Pack200 support for Java Web Start applications * Logging framework * Support for new JNLPAppletLauncher utility (based on JOGLAppletLauncher) * Several bug fixes Release Notes Java3D 1.5.1 Java3D 1.5.1 highlights Java3D downloads

After playing around with Java in the early days (JDK 1.2/1.3) and doing lots of JNI work, I left that area and worked mainly in C code and got lured into the C#/.NET world. Recently I evaluated lots of toolkits with the idea of playing around with 2D games and stuff like that. I found some C# DirectX projects, but nothing great. The interesting toolkits/libraries like : C# SDL.net Irrlicht.NET I found lots of others, but nothing that had either a small download for development (didn't want to download 400MB SDK), small deployment runtime, and was pure C#. Then I toyed with some native toolits, there are a lot more to choose from: Native HGE - excellent Windows 2D C++ toolkit SDL - cross platform C/C++ toolkit PureBasic - excellent, easy to get sprites blitting examples up and running, hard to judge performance because demo is always in debug mode but IDE is great and easy to use BlitzPlus - demo seemed ok, bad IDE, samples were not good. I saw an extra set of SDL bindings for