[osflash] Techniques to implement a Chat system

[Chris Allen]

Marcelo,

XMLSocket is bidirectional. It's a Socket afterall. Bob, might be
right that it's possibly overkill to use Red5 for a chat application.
You may want to look at Jive Software's Wildfire:
http://jivesoftware.org/ as a good choice. It's a Jabber/XMPP
implementation that also has a really good Flash library for the XMPP
protocol. This gives you much of the typical chat infrastructure right
off the bat. I used this for an application a little while back, and
it was really excellent.

However, if it's a room based chat that you want, take a look at the
FITC example that comes with Red5. We have a simple text based chat
that's part of the video conferencing application.

There's also another guy on the Red5 list that is looking to hook up
Red5 to an XMPP server, so you may want to discuss with him what he's
doing over on the Red5 list.

I hope that some of this information helps you out.

-Chris

On 9/14/06, Johannes Nel <johannes.nel at gmail.com> wrote:
> yes
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> On 9/14/06, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
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> Hey bob... this XMLSocket technique is bi-direcional?
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> On 9/14/06, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> > On 9/14/06, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa < celoserpa at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > On my last project I need to implement a chat system. However, I'm
> really
> > > not sure about the technologies involved. I know I can do the "refresh
> > > trick" (pull method?) where the application keeps pinging the server to
> see
> > > if there is new data available. I also know that there are other more
> > > efficient solutions such as the one used by FMS or FDS, and here's my
> doubt
> > > - what is this technology about (JMS?) ? Does it work over http? How
> does
> > > that work after all?
> >
> > Creating an XMLSocket server for Flash 5+ is trivial. People have been
> > making chat servers and clients with that combination for at least 5
> > years now (my first was in 2001), you should have no problem finding
> > information on the topic.
> >
> > Personally I would steer clear of Red5 for this, there are more mature
> > and easier to debug options available to you for this kind of
> > application.
> >
> > -bob
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