Java in Artificial Intelligence

I recently decided that I really needed to learn Java for financial
reasons.  My day job requires me to have skills I would probably pass up
otherwise and I'm beginning to feel a bit outdated.  This probably isn't
that good because I also feel a bit expendable at my current day job
right now.  I have worked with Java off and on for a few years, but I've
never really gotten comfortable with it.  I like it more than I like
C++, but I prefer Lisp or C over it for most things.  It has always
seemed to have most of the disadvantages of Lisp and most of the
disadvantages of C all rolled into one. 

Now I know that the language has a sweet spot somewhere.  It must really
shine for some things, and being portable is really nice.  

So it's time to buckle down and learn a new language, one that does have
a number of advantages over Common Lisp for many applications.  I would
like to see how to take advantage of the language when used for
artificial intelligence programming.  I'm really looking for a book like
Peter Norvig's, "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case
Studies in Common Lisp" (just mentioned in another thread), but for
Java. 

Does such a work exist?  Does something similar?  

-- 
Kenneth P. Turvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

  Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Wiki 
  http://ai.squeakydolphin.com

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