Paper Info
Title
Networking Middleware and Online-Deployment Mechanisms for Java-Based Games
Abstract
Currently, web-based online gaming applications are predominately utilising Adobe Flash or Java Applets as their core technologies. These games are often casual, two-dimensional games and do not utilise the specialist graphics hardware which has proliferated across modern PCs and Consoles. Multi-user online game play in these titles is often either non-existent or extremely limited. Computer games applications which grace the current generation of consoles and personal computers are designed to utilise the increasingly impressive hardware power at their disposal. However, these are commonly distributed using a physical medium or deployed through custom, proprietary networking mechanisms and rely upon platform-specific networking APIs to facilitate multi-user online game play. In order to unify the concepts of these disparate styles of gaming, this paper presents two interconnected systems which are implemented using Java Web Start and JXTA P2P technologies, providing a platform-independent framework capable of deploying hardware accelerated cross-platform, cross-browser online-enabled Java games, as part of the Homura Project.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-03270-7_2
T. Edutainment
Keywords
Field
DocType
peer to peer networking,java applets,computer games application,networking middleware,web technologies,java-based games,impressive hardware power,specialist graphics hardware,p2p games.,distributed systems,jxta,java web start,jme,web-based online gaming application,platform-specific networking apis,deploying hardware,homura,multi-user online game play,java monkey engine,cross-browser online-enabled java game,netho- mura,online-deployment mechanisms,deployment,java,hardware accelerator,p2p,java applet,distributed system,graphics hardware
Middleware,World Wide Web,Software deployment,Graphics hardware,Computer science,Casual,Java applet,Java
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.85
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chris Carter1112.46
Abdennour El Rhalibi233849.07
Madjid Merabti344867.52
Marc Price431.18