adhoc wireless java game development

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I want to develop a Java game that works on adhoc wireless environment. Do you know any source that I can search for it and learn for it?

This is a very vague and broad question. Could you be more specific about what work you've done so far and where you're stuck? — Glenn, May 02 '12 at 13:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '12 at 13:17

Adhoc and wireless is not related to Java. An ad-hoc wireless network is something that two computers can set up between each other to create a network. At that point your Java game is using a network the same as any other network (the fact that is is wireless and ad-hoc is irrelevant - to Java it looks exactly the same as a wired network for example).

Your java program will then have the same TCP/IP and UDP/IP stack available to it and can use Socket/ServerSocket (TCP) or DatagramSocket (UDP) to communicate.

The following page gives an overview of networking in Java:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/overview/networking.html

And the following page has an example of a very small simple networked java game that might be helpful to get to grips with the basics:

http://www.dr-mikes-maths.com/tictactoe.html

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 19 '20 at 15:08

If you want to create a online game you must learn the following classes:

Java.net.ServerSocket This class will let you host a socket at a specified ip and port.
Java.net.Socket This class will let you to connet to a socket at a specified ip and port.
java.io.InputStream This class will let you send streams from a socket to another.
java.io.OutputStream This class will let you get streams from a socket to another.
java.lang.Thread This class is very important but i cannot describe it. an alternative to this class is the Runnable interface.

These are enough.

adhoc wireless java game development

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