Is it possible to have multiple GLJPanels on top of each other acting like layers? If so what is the preferred method of doing it? Or is there a better way to handle multi-layer drawing?

Thanks.

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/will_java_be_the_world

For some reason I started holding my breath.

You are probably using a too old version of eclipse, SWT to be precise. You need at least version 3.2M3.

There's a nice simple example game in the book Developing Games in Java (http://www.brackeen.com/javagamebook/).
You can play the game from the site and download all the source code. I think the code for the game is in chapter 5, but not sure.
See if it helps any.

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