Giving Java a go!

Thought I would give Java a go today, wanted to try something I might do with flash and compare to see how much harder/time consuming it might be Vs how much more power you can get from Java. Well first results are in, and I was surprised to find it didn’t take much longer and was MUCH more powerful. I was using NetBeans which is a very nice IDE. The piece is a particle field and I was originaly able to crank it up to 500,000 particles, the frame rate dropped but it was still under a frame a second on a 2.16 ghz Macbook Pro. I tried for a 1,000,000 partcles but it ran out of heap space, although I think there is probably a way around that. Well compared to flash this is amazing you could never get performance like that.
It seems to me that not everything is going to be as easy as in flash but that the performance will make up
for the difficulty. I will have to leave it there for now but hope to play some more soon!