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| Preface
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| About the Author
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| About the Contributing Authors
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| About the Technical Reviewers
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| Acknowledgments
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| Introduction
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| Why Java?
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| What You Need
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| What Is in this tutorial
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| What's Not in this tutorial
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| About the Code in this tutorial
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| Using Ant
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| Summary
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| Part I. Java Game Fundamentals
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| 1. Java Threads
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| What Is a Thread?
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| Creating and Running Threads in Java
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| Synchronization
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| Using wait() and notify()
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| The Java Event Model
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| When to Use Threads
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| When Not to Use Threads
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| Sum It Up: Thread Pools
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| Summary
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| 2. 2D Graphics and Animation
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| Full-Screen Graphics
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| Images
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| Getting Rid of Flicker and Tearing
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| Simple Effects
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| Summary
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| 3. Interactivity and User Interfaces
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| The AWT Event Model
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| Keyboard Input
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| Mouse Input
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| Mouselook-Style Mouse Movement
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| Creating an Input Manager
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| Using the Input Manager
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| Designing Intuitive User Interfaces
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| Using Swing Components
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| Creating a Simple Menu
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| Letting the Player Configure the Keyboard
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| Summary
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| 4. Sound Effects and Music
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| Sound Basics
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| The Java Sound API
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| Playing a Sound
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| Creating a Real-Time Sound Filter Architecture
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| Creating a Real-Time Echo Filter
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| Emulating 3D Sound
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| Creating a Sound Manager
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| Playing Music
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| Summary
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| 5. Creating a 2D Platform Game
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| Creating a Tile-Based Map
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| Collision Detection
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| Finishing Things Up and Making It Fast
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| Creating an Executable .jar File
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| Ideas to Expand the Game
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| Summary
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| 6. Multi-Player Games
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| The Revolution in Java's I/O Libraries
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| ChatterBox, A Basic Multi-Player app
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| Multi-Player Game Server Framework
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| A Sample Game: RPS (Rock, Paper, Scissors)
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| Complete the Look: Building on the Framework
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| Server Administration
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| Advanced Topics
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| Summary
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| Part II. 3D Graphics and Advanced Techniques
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| 7. 3D Graphics
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| Types of 3D Rendering
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| Don't Forget Your Math
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| 3D Basics
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| 3D Math
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| Polygons
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| 3D Transforms
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| A Simple 3D Pipeline
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| Camera Movement
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| Solid Objects and Back-Face Removal
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| Scan-Converting Polygons
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| 3D Clipping
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| Final Rendering Pipeline
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| Summary
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| 8. Texture Mapping and Lighting
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| Perspective-Correct Texture Mapping Basics
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| A Simple Texture-Mapper
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| Optimizing Texture Mapping
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| Simple Lighting
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| Implementing Texture Lighting
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| Advanced Lighting Using a Shade Map
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| Additional Concepts
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| Summary
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| 9. 3D Objects
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| Hidden Surface Removal
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| 3D Animation
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| Polygon Groups
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| Loading Polygon Groups from an OBJ File
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| Game Objects
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| Managing Game Objects
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| Putting It All Together
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| Future Enhancements
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| Summary
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| 10. 3D Scene Management Using BSP Trees
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| BSP Tree Intro
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| Binary Tree Basics
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| The One-Dimensional BSP Tree
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| The Two-Dimensional BSP Tree
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| Implementing a 2D BSP Tree
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| Drawing Polygons Front to Back
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| First BSP Example
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| Drawing Objects in the Scene
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| Loading Maps from a File
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| Putting It All Together
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| Enhancements
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| Summary
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| 11. Collision Detection
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| Collision Basics
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| Object-to-Object Collisions
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| Object-to-World Collisions
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| Basic Collision-Detection Demo
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| Collision Handling with Sliding
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| Collision Detection with Sliding Demo
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| Enhancements
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| Summary
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| 12. Path Finding
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| Path-Finding Basics
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| Some Initial Path-Finding Attempts
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| Basics of the A* Algorithm
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| Applying the A* Algorithm
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| Using the A* Algorithm with a BSP Tree
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| Generic Path Finding
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| Making a PathBot
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| Enhancing the A* Search
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| Summary
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| 13. Artificial Intelligence
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| AI Basics
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| Take Away Those Godlike Powers!
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| State Machines and Reacting
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| Probability Machines
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| Making Decisions
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| Patterns
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| Object Spawning
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| Putting It All Together
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| Evolution
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| Other Game AI Ideas
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| Summary
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| 14. Game Scripting
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| Scripting Cookbook: What You Need
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| Implementing Touch and Release Notifications
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| Game Object Listeners
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| Scripting
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| Delayed Events
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| Putting It All Together
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| Enhancements
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| Summary
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| 15. Persistence-Saving the Game
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| Game-Saving Basics
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| Using Java's Serialization API for Game State Persistence
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| Creating Game Screen Snapshots
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| Saving Games to the Right Destination
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| Summary
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| Part III. Tuning and Finishing Your Game
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| 16. Optimization Techniques
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| Optimization Rules
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| Profiling
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| HotSpot
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| Optimization Tricks
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| Memory Usage and the Garbage Collector
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| Perceived Performance
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| Summary
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| 17. Creating Game Art and Sounds
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| Choosing a Look and Feel
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| Getting Royalty-Free Game Media
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| Working with Artists and Sound Effect Engineers
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| Tools
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| Creating Sounds
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| Creating Textures and Sprites
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| Creating Splash Screens and HUD Graphics
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| Creating UI Graphics
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| Creating Your Own Fonts
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| Summary
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| 18. Game Design and the Last 10%
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| The Last 10%
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| Elements of Game Design
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| Creating a Map Editor
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| Debugging
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| Protecting Code
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| Game Deployment
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| Game Deployment with Java Web Start
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| Game Deployment with Native Compilation
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| Updates and Patches
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| Bandwidth Issues
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| Getting Feedback and Beta Testing
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| Making Money
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| Putting It All Together
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| Summary
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| 19. The Future
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| How Java Evolves
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| The Future: Java 1.5 "Tiger"
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| What the Java Platform Needs
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| New Devices and the Java Games Profile (JSR 134)
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| Summary
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| Index
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