Anyone actually use Java?

[MadPrgmr]

I'm just trying to measure whether it's worth me trying to polish up some of my code to aid other Java Tibia developers. I don't have time to go through it all, so I'd just be posting stuff like my pattern-based packet generator/parser (think along the lines of printf and scanf in C, but for Tibia packets), and maybe new stuff that I cook up over time.

Virtually everything I've written is designed for packet-based stuff...no memory-related code...although I'm willing to write wrapper libraries for any popular memory access libraries out there.

[Jesper_Kladden]

I don't use it

[Ian]

I love the work you've done with Java, and the fact that a jar file is so easily portable, however, I enjoy programming in C# much more. Further, 99% of Tibia programmers and especially users are on windows, so cross-platform is less of an issue. You are a good programmer though, and I would hate to see your skills go to waste.

[Cameri]

Me no like Java >.< i find it too slow for my taste

[MadPrgmr]

Slow? 0.o
I admit, it's not quite up to native code speed, but it isn't slow (unless you're trying to do something exceptionally math-ish like factor prime numbers...)

See http://www.shudo.net/jit/perf/ for some comparisons of Java, C, C++, and .NET. Naturally, C performs best, but in most cases, Java comes in for a very close second...followed far behind by .NET.

Note that if you wish to debate speed, I would prefer we do so in another thread, so this one doesn't get cluttered

[Cameri]

No need to debate... that's just my personal experience, every single Java application that i've used has the tendency to FREEZE every now and then, right-clicking to draw a context menu usually takes some time, it's very short time but it's noticeable, can't say it's my pc, cuz that happens to me in other comps, maybe it's just me...
Program's i've used:
-Azureus
-Xilinx Webpack
-NetBeans
-OpenOffice & StarOffice

[zionz]

I've started learning java but never got used to it (same happened with c#) i guess my brain suffered permanent damage due to prolonged exposition to C/C++ XD.

About speed, nowadays this is not an issue anymore, java is very close to c++ (in terms of speed) if your code is good, of course there are special cases when the lower level features of c++ can be (ab)used to make a big speed difference .
There is also a java compiler that can generate native code giving a good performance boost in many cases.

Cameri i know what you mean i also feel that effect, i think its because Java uses its own GUI drawing system (not really sure) instead of the native GUI system.

Ok sorry for going a bit offtopic .

[Azura]

I have studied java on university but java isnt anything I personaly prefer to use. Would really enjoy to see your work tho

[Jan]

I learn Java in school but i prefer C++ or C#...

[Ian]

zionz Wrote:Cameri i know what you mean i also feel that effect, i think its because Java uses its own GUI drawing system (not really sure) instead of the native GUI system.

That can be solved relatively easily with one line (plus a try-catch block):

Code:

try
{
    UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
}
catch(Exception e) {}