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Are any of you familiar with using Java as a code base?

Yes.

No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

http://pain.sf.net :)

Wow, a coding question I can answer.

No, I'm not familiar. I hear Tyche isn't either, but Kastagaar apparently is.

Glad to help

So now that you can finally answer a coding question, does this mean you will hang out in the coders forum more?

As this one guy used to say, Java is a faster way, to program a slower MUD :).

Not true, Java MUDs run just as fast as muds written in C or C++. Startup time is a little slower, but at runtime there is no noticeable difference what-so-ever.

-Jeremy, who's Java MUD has an SQL backend, and still runs faster than greased lightning.

I've seen cases where Java outran C in benchmarks. The current Java runtime engines usually compile the bytecodes to native at runtime using the Just-in-Time (JiT) compiler.

^^ was just kiddin' around, hence the smiley face but....

Could run 2x faster or 2x slower depending on what you are doing and how you do it. There is advantages/disadvantages to both.

Heh. I believe he's referring to my beast, which runs CoffeeMUD with M$ SQL 2000 as the backend db (can't be too many Jeremy's with those running around). It does run fast and even boots up in under 3 minutes with around 40,000 rooms.

If you're wanting to get started with coding in Java for MUDs, save yourself a lot of pain and check out CoffeeMUD ( http://coffeemud.zimmers.net ). Bo was nice enough to all of us to write a detailed programmer's guide that can jumpstart even a java novice. Also, there is a great support group available with around 20 (of 200) active posters daily.

Tulath
Vice President
False Realities MUD
http://www.falserealities.com

Sure, if anyone else needs my flippant replies I'll be glad to help them out. I'm good with QBasic, upto 'Hello World' standard (assuming someone helps me that is).