I occasionally need to convert the background color of a particular image to be transparent so that the image looks better on medium with backgrounds of colors other than the image’s original ...

I don't know of any books, but I wrote a 2d game in Java which I lifted from download from the Java Boutique website. At least in 2001 there were tons of games and you could download the source code.

a 2d array is just an array of 1d arrays of a type. You will have to search each of the inner arrays.<BR><BR> <B>IF</B> the 1d array is sorted, you can use the binary search from java.util.Arrays ...

A week before its JavaOne conference gets under way, Sun Microsystems is promoting a new version of Java 2 Standard Edition. Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) is the foundation of the Java technology and ...

Cue is pleased to announce that acquisition of the Wortel 2D seismic survey has begun in the Sampang Production Sharing Contract, offshore East Java, Indonesia. The 395km Seismic survey is designed to ...