Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

JavaBoutique has an interesting article about developing online games with Java. The article is fairly comprehensive and deals mainly with applet based games. Its worth look if you are interested in online game development and or if you are interested in learning some java. It does require that you already know some java but you dont have to be an expert by any means.

Check it out via the link --->   Game Development with Java: JavaBoutique