I don't know of any books, but I wrote a 2d game in Java which I lifted from download from the Java Boutique website. At least in 2001 there were tons of games and you could download the source code.

a 2d array is just an array of 1d arrays of a type. You will have to search each of the inner arrays.<BR><BR> <B>IF</B> the 1d array is sorted, you can use the binary search from java.util.Arrays ...

This code generates Java 2D GeneralPaths representing isolines of a data set. It is intended to be easy to use - please offer suggestions if you feel it is not. It is a direct implementation of the ...