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In the future you will. For now it is not our next goal.

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I am all for creating multiplayer. It will require some concurrent messaging framework and data storage, because I don't want to reinvent so complex wheel.

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@AKryukov92 The solutions:

Convert the project to libGDX, so it will be much easier to develop the project.

Search and find a useful library to implement messaging and developing a multiplayer system.

DreamBlocks is written with the standard Java library, which will make the project more and more complex in the future.

What do you suggest to do? I rely on your experience.

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I checked libGDX site and found no information about networking support.

After some googling I have found:

• https://netty.io/
• https://javaee.github.io/grizzly/
• https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/kryonet
• https://mina.apache.org

Most of them provide similar functionality. Netty and grizzly are present in gradle repository to download.
Kryonet feature is serialisation framework in the same box. Probably it is more efficient than gson. It is a subject of research.
I found no documentation on site of Mina apache.

Other option is to use JMS.
We have following options:

• ActiveMQ
• Glassfish
• RabbitMQ

Those are messaging frameworks. But I think they will be useful only once you hit 10000 players.
They go with scheduling, load balance and other high load stuff.

I'm thinking of using Netty. It has good docs. It is present in gradle repository. I found one good tutorial from developers of one of the most popular MC server.

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Very interesting. I hear Kryonet many times in other projects and it is very widespread. I do not mean networking, but your research is interesting.

I would like to remove the external timer.jar and gson.jar library unfortunately I do not know good frames working with the standard java library.

Your advice, LWJGL is a very powerful and vast framework (many modules) do you think can come back to us to simplify the project? Obviously I do not mean the graphic part, LWJGL works with opengl and we use awt and swing.

I just saw Kryonet standing 4 years ago. Netty has many developers and is updated frequently, it seems a good choice, the best I think.

Glassfish I used it a friend of my programmer a few years ago. Is a widespread solution, I do not know any more, in this area I'm ignorant sorry :)

Thanks ^__^

I have to study and do a lot of research, I want to improve my knowledge and put into practice good ideas.

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