How can I improve the performance of java games?
You could try and tune javaw. To begin with i assume you run it like this :
C:\jdk6\bin\javaw.exe -jar "C:\jedit\jedit.jar"
To add parameters for tuning, it should then look like this :
C:\jdk6\bin\javaw.exe -Xmx256m -Xms256m -jar "C:\jedit\jedit.jar"
The above example allocates 256 MB heap memory for Java.
Further examples can be found in the Java Tuning White Paper.
Good luck :)