wow.. Thanx so much. Yeah i was wondering about the applet java2d engine thingy. Questions.. Can i use Direct X with Java? And with this webstart thing.. does it require the end user to download anything beyond the regular java stuff? Goal is to make the end user be able to play from any computer using the net. And it run fast enough that it won't die or lag on anything but maybe a dial-up connection.

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Nice. Well after looking a bit at some java things Im using the Java 2d Engine to develope the game.

I also have a friend who is a professional Java Programmer whoes helping me with the code.

After lots of reading.. Some late nights at coding.. and a lot of coffee.

Anyone know of a good program already out there that creates tiled maps and layers that I can use?

Try out TileED Written in Java and quite easy to modify. Supports both "normal" square tiles, and isometric ones.

Okay.. I think I got all my info together to start building this thing. Now the project for this week is to build the servers to handle this.

What I am thinking is having a dual p3 866 with 1g of ram and a 40g hdd setup for the database and a 1.6ghz with 1g of ram and a 30g hdd for production / stage.

In your experiences should this be enough or do I need to maybe switch some things around?

Both will be rack mounts in a server rack in my house with plenty of cooling and air flow.

Like kezz said, he doesn't need any hosts just yet. He can just call 127.0.0.1, sweet 127.0.0.1, and get his software up and running.

shmoove

Hmm... Well I am worried about it. I have all the things I need to setup the java environment and server stuff as far as programs, equiptment, bandwidth, and such.

The reason I am setting it up on two seperape boxes is that I am planning on not having to bog my local host down with outside access. And to make sure I have what I need for the next year or so without any major hdd swapping or box switching and then having to config all the ports again for each box. I also house my own website and another website which are currently running on my personal PC. Which is built for gaming and gets re formatted and ghosted as needed. This presents the current problem of backing up the data each and everytime I change a peice of hardware or something goes wrong.

And I do not wish to have extra people accessing my personal box. Even though I have my high end internet connection and 100base T running around my box gets bottle necked and delays access to the outside world.

Also, most of my programming and testing will be done off site so I will need the two boxes for the other developers on the team to access and the websites to be housed.

And due to being as professional in my development attempts as possible I would like to have the boxes seperate from my own box. For the reasons above and the fact that if one box goes down (i.e production) then the database is not gone.

I am also going to work on another box that has about an 80g hdd to run backup for both of the other boxes.

The part where I am still stuck though is the box hardware configurations for my database and for my production/stage/websites.

And now how to make linux perform backups of the database and production code to a seperate box.

Well I have a week now until the planning meeting is set to lay all of this info down and determine what is going to be done first and where the foundation is going to be layed to go full blown into this.