https://github.com/nickscha/ecs4j

ECS4J provides a lightweight Entity Component System (ECS) implementation for java.
https://github.com/nickscha/ecs4j

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ECS4J provides a lightweight Entity Component System (ECS) implementation for java.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nickscha/ecs4j
• Owner: nickscha
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2018-12-27T14:26:13.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-02-02T21:18:00.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-21T14:35:53.162Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: ecs, ecs4j, entity-component-system, java, pattern
• Language: Java
• Size: 40 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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ECS4J provides a lightweight Entity Component System (ECS) implementation which is easy to use as well as a transparent and fluent API.

## Maven

```xml

  com.github.nickscha

  ecs4j

  NOT-RELEASED

```

The artifact will be published under https://oss.sonatype.org

## Requirements

* Java 8 or later

## Introduction

The Entity Component System (in short ECS) is an architectural pattern following the composition over inheritance pattern and is highly compatible with data oriented design techniques. 

ECS is commonly used in applications were inheritance would lead to inflexible code

and confusing/unclear code structures in order to manage the data and

behaviours of entities. Due to the strict separation of data and behaviour it

allows easy multithreading and serialization of data.

ECS has a very strict terminology:

* Entity - A unique identifier for a set of components.

* Component - raw data and nothing more. No logic/behaviour.

* System - Contains the logic/behaviour for a list of entity components as required by the system. (Usually a system runs contuniously in private threads)