Java Games on Facebook?

[Karmington]

I left my previous workplace around the time they were porting the game (MoiPal) to Facebook. Was wondering if anybody knows of any other Java games on Facebook?
And here I mean real, moving games not click and wait stuff like the Mafia Wars stuff...

Been wondering if i should be interested in porting slicks to FB, would be nice to know more of the limits and hurdles involved.

[DzzD]

I left my previous workplace around the time they were porting the game (MoiPal) to Facebook. Was wondering if anybody knows of any other Java games on Facebook?
And here I mean real, moving games not click and wait stuff like the Mafia Wars stuff...

Been wondering if i should be interested in porting slicks to FB, would be nice to know more of the limits and hurdles involved.

you can build IFrame-likes facebook applications, so I think there is no really need to port anything as long as you use Applet, no ?

[Karmington]

If it's that simple... Wonder why people don't distribute more samples through fb. Zynga is making a killing with suboptimal games.
better get busy, thanks

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[Hansdampf]

If it's that simple... could you please upload a simple working example (bouncing ball, displaying friends list?) I can't find any.
That would be G R E A T

[kevglass]

http://t-machine.org/index.php/2007/08/02/how-to-make-facebook-apps-using-java-part-1/

From our very own blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah...

Kev

EDIT: Oh, and since his links are broken:

http://t-machine.org/index.php/2007/08/13/how-to-make-facebook-apps-using-java-part-2/

http://t-machine.org/index.php/2007/09/21/ten-tips-and-tricks-for-writing-facebook-apps/

[Hansdampf]

Those links are about Servlets - and there is a more up to date library for that
http://code.google.com/p/facebook-java-api/

I don't think you can do a bouncing ball with that. I could not find a single Applet integrated in Facebook.
The old Image Uploader was an Applet, but they dropped it.

[kevglass]

He seems to cover the iframe intergration, after that presumably the API interaction is basically the same in that you're still going to have to make web app style requests.

Kev

[Hansdampf]

So, is there a working Java Applet on Facebook (even without any API calls) ?
If not, I guess it is not possible, IFrame or not.

[Karmington]

http://apps.facebook.com/moipalapp

[Hansdampf]

 
Yay! You made my day.
(What a bad Zack McKracken Clone)
Off to trying it myself 

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[DzzD]

So, is there a working Java Applet on Facebook (even without any API calls) ?
If not, I guess it is not possible, IFrame or not.

I made a facebook application test a cupple of monthes ago, I will see if I can get the source code back and will post it (but as I remember it is just few lines of code)

[Hansdampf]

my site seems to run in Facebook now:
http://apps.facebook.com/kaiguessgame/?_fb_fromhash=b8e39bf8efafa4b05177c49b425d0770

still way too big, no mouse cursor, rendering errors, but it works 

edit: just for testing purpose 
edit: very instable, there should be an applet (works every 3rd time?)
final edit: everything works, including scores! All I have to do now is to rescale the Applet and include the API stuff 

[DzzD]

my site seems to run in Facebook now:
http://apps.facebook.com/kaiguessgame/?_fb_fromhash=b8e39bf8efafa4b05177c49b425d0770

still way too big, no mouse cursor, rendering errors, but it works 

edit: just for testing purpose 
edit: very instable, there should be an applet (works every 3rd time?)
final edit: everything works, including scores! All I have to do now is to rescale the Applet and include the API stuff 

that's cool works fine here

[noblemaster]

worked fine for me too!

[DzzD]

here is this really fantastic source code I told about... mouhahaha

need two files :
first :

index.php

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<? echo "<fb:iframe src='http://dzzd.net/facebook/test/test.html' frameborder='0' scrolling='no'>"; ?>

and a second one :

test.html (inded located at the proper URL)

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<HTML>    <BODY>       FACE BOOK HTML APP => CAN BE AN APPLET    </BODY> </HTML>

then you can do everything as usual on your own server

the app here http://apps.facebook.com/testaab/
and inded here http://dzzd.net/facebook/test/test.html

here more information : http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php

EDIT : joined the application configuration

[Hansdampf]

here is a simple example how to pass parameters from the Facebook API to Applets (via PHP)
http://bncapps.com/java-applet-as-a-facebook-app/

[broumbroum]

But you're supposed to have a Facebook-enabled webserver, to use facebook-php-api

Note: From this point on, I am already assuming you downloaded the Facebook API PHP files and have them all in a folder. The scripts we are about to work on must be in the same folder.

//Read more: http://bncapps.com/java-applet-as-a-facebook-app/#ixzz0eBct2TDr

Best way to relay on the java facebook api. In either case, the fb app must be registered  as a Web Application NOT Desktop (be careful with that because it cannot be changed after your app is registered, then you can lose secret keys etc.).