Hi Vuze bittorrent client could be considered as a popular Java app.
Some Java games: Minecraft Tribe Trouble RunScape - is one of the most popular free to play MMOs Three Rings use Java for number of their MMOs - Spiral Knights, Puzzle Pirates, Bang! Howdy... RunScape, Minecraft, Vuze probably could be considered as killer apps, but I don't think they would make any difference on the desktop. The problem is not with functional capabilities, but with attitude of desktop/game developers. Game development is a quite conservative business and still C++ dominated. Recently C# is getting into the picture with XNA. Java would need some rich framework like XNA + a lot of marketing/evangelism to penetrate into the gamedev at this point. All we got now is JMonkey, Ardor3D, Xith3D and Slick - none of these could provide compete stack to simplify development (although JMonkey is moving in that direction). And Android shows that developers are willing to write client apps and games in Java if proper environment and support available. However, as already mentioned in this thread, one could argue why to bother with desktop? Since it is dying anyway and development is moving toward web and mobile platforms. Igor On Jul 24, 5:48 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > A recent all-java client app that could be considered 'killer' is of course > Minecraft, though I rather doubt that's what you had in mind. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
