| Lightstone |
| ========== |
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| Introduction |
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| Lightstone is an open-source implementation of the |
| [Minecraft](http://minecraft.net) server software written in Java. |
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| The official server software has some shortcomings such as the use of threaded, |
| synchronous I/O along with high CPU and RAM usage. Lightstone aims to be a |
| lightweight and high-performance alternative. |
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| Building |
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| Lightstone can be built with the |
| [Java Development Kit](http://oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads) and |
| [Apache Ant](http://ant.apache.org). |
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| Typing the command `ant` in the terminal will build the project. |
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| Running |
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| Although not recommended, the server can be started via Ant. This is useful |
| for certain IDEs e.g. NetBeans which require an Ant target to run the project. |
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| Typing the command `ant run` in the terminal will do this. It will also build |
| the project if the binaries are out of date. |
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| Credits |
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| * The Minecraft Coalition - protocol and formats research |
| * Trustin Lee - author of the [Netty](http://jboss.org/netty) library |
| * Notch - for making such a super awesome game in the first place! |
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| Copyright |
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| Lightstone is open-source software released under the GPL license, please see |
| the `COPYING` and `LICENSE` files for details. |