“Evaluating Java for Game Development” can be downloaded in pdf format for free. The purpose of this book is to examine whether the use of Java for games is advantageous compared to the traditional language of choice, C++.
Book Description
This is not an easy question to answer, and as we will see later the answer will depend on several project specific issues. The target group of the book is professional game programmers with little or no knowledge of Java, who wonder whether Java would be beneficial in their future projects. The book generally assumes that the reader is skeptical about Java.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Game development
- Introducing java
- Java/c++ language comparison
- Java performance
- Benchmarks
- Evaluating java for a game project