Sun’s Darkstar Online Game Platform to be Published as Open Source

As reported by Raph Koster: Sun’s flexible online game platform, Project Darkstar, is going to be released as open source. Early release binaries are already available and the source code for version 1 will be released in May. The platform seems to have potential; it is reported that you can implement clients easily with the technology that you prefer and even the server-side is not restricted to Java. From a quick look the main platform seems very well thought out and flexible so that it supports the development of many kinds of games.