Resources

• For more about developing a high-level business description and identifying patterns, review "Online game infrastructures, Part 1".
  
  
• In "Online game infrastructures: Integrate additional device-support functions, Part 3," focus on integrating new device-support functions into the existing online games infrastructure and meet e-commerce and device-connectivity requirements.
  
  
• In "Online game infrastructures: Integrate additional device-support functions, Part 4," focus on learning patterns-based solutions to handle community interaction needs, address adding new content for users of the game environment, and provide assistance when users want it.
  
  
• Try Patterns for e-business Development Kit Lite (PDK Lite), a self-configuring, end-to-end skeleton Web application in one self-extracting package for implementing various Self-Service solution designs.
  
  
• Visit the IBM e-business Patterns site, a repository of pattern resources, including a walkthrough exercise that can make it easier to choose the correct patterns for your design.
  
  
• Check out the International Game Developers Association, a non-profit membership organization that advocates globally on issues related to digital game creation.
  
  
• Get a quick overview of pattern usage in "Patterns for e-business" (developerWorks, June 2000).
  
  
• Take a detailed peek into the workings of this architecture in "A custom design based on the Portal Composite Pattern architecture" (developerWorks, February 2004) .
  
  
• Read "Business Integration for games: An introduction to online games and e-business infrastructure" for more on the technology solutions behind the business and revenue models of online game systems.
  
  
• Discover how to take Tetris game elements, wrap them as Java objects, and create reusable game components in "Tetris meets the Java bean" (developerWorks, April 2002).
  
  
• Patterns for e-business: A Strategy for Reuse (IBM Press, 2001), by Adams, Koushik, Vasudeva, and Galambos, is the basis for this article. Read a chapter from the book.
  
  
• Check out Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide (O'Reilly & Associates; 1996), by Mulligan and Patrovsky, an excellent book describing the business requirements for running an online games infrastructure.
  
  
• Visit developerWorks Web Architecture zone for articles covering various Web-based solutions.
  
  
• Visit the Developer Bookstore for a comprehensive listing of technical books, including hundreds of Web-related titles.
  
  
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