Just thought of three questions about the networking: 1. What would be the best way to handle things like user accounts? It would need to be accessed from within the applet and from the website. 2. What would i need to learn for making a card database type setup. 3. What hosting service would you recommend? I have looked at slicehost and it seems fairly good but i would like other opinions.

THANKS

Ok thanks for the replies. I think i will go through the tutorials here: http://www.planetalia.com/cursos/ and the networking articles at http://gafferongames.wordpress.com/networking-for-game-programmers/

Me and my brother are wanting to make a trading card style game with networking that runs on the web browser. I am responsible for the programming so i decided our best bet is java applets. My questions are: 1. What would be best between java2d and lwjgl for a 2d applet game? 2. Would accelerated graphics like in the cokeandcode.com tutorial be possible in applets? And if so how?  I may have more questions later so please bare with me.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. MY FIRST POST!!!!!!!!!!!