Good tools/frameworks to develop a game server in Java?

Question

I am making a game server for a turn based game. Not a web based server, but a process-based one. I want it to be scalable and I want the development process to go as smoothly as possible. I haven't used Java in forever and I need to brush up on my skills, so I really have no idea what is out there framework or tool-wise. Right now it looks like I am going to use Terracotta due to its clustering capabilities. I was just wondering if anything besides this that would make developing a TCP based game server easier?

Answer 1

Have a look at Marauroa. It is a client server framework for turn based games. There is even a MORPG based on it, with the turn time set down to only 300ms.

But it is not designed for cluster support.

http://arianne.sf.net/wiki/index.php/Marauroa

Answer 2

You might want to take a look at Project Darkstar.

Answer 3

Have you looked at SmartFoxServer? It's Java and already supports Terracotta.