designing a javagame

[summit]

i only have programmed html and i've used flash... i was interested in bringing my services over to the java side... does anyone have anytips on compilers and such?

 

[znaps]

You'll be needing the JDK from http://java.sun.com

A good free IDE would be Eclipse or Netbeans

http://www.eclipse.org
http://www.netbeans.org

You'll probably want a good book or two if you don't know any OO languages.