Hi !

I bought this book on Amazon a few days ago and I read almost the entire content, so I can now criticize it ;o) Well, briefly, it rocks !

At least for me. I have already read 10 thousands of articles and tutorials on the web and a couple of books too. However I am a true beginner in the game world althought I have ideas about a majority of the vast amount of subjects involved in a game creation. Furthermore I know really well Java for professional purpose.

This book really is not for Java beginner and that alone is a really good point. Because it's rare. The chapters are well organized and there is good explanations along the code. I learnt how a basic (full java) 2D and 3D game engine can be laid out and my ideas are much more clearer.
So if you are like me a beginner in game dev but not in java, i just recommend it.

PS: it does not cover the OGL not J3D stuff but JOGL is too young and it's not it's goal.

On whether you jump straight into 3D or not.  There are two considerations.  The first is that 3D requires some pretty sophisticated math.  if your not already extremely comfortable with vector algebra (in particular transformation matrices and vector products) you probably want to wait and attack that after you've written a simple 2D game or two.

Secondly there is just a lot more that you need to do, both in code and in art, to build a 3D game so that might also be a reason to do a 2D one first.

Swing comes with CrEme MAX. Probably CrEme STD as well but I forget now. We used the MAX version.

Cas

The only JVM on iPaq that supports Swing is NSICom's CrEme 3.2 JVM. It's not a bad VM, either, but it's terribly slow.

Cas

Tortosie in MIDP PP is also in midlets as well..

anything written for PP is compatible with MIDP because it is MIDP..