[Red5] saying hello, new to the mailinglist. i have some questions.

[Joachim Bauch]

Hi Sascha,

thanks for your introduction, it's always nice to see new people on the
list.

Sascha schrieb:
[...]
> btw.. actually i saw these videotutorials on flashextensions.com... them 
> are great helping me to better
> understand eclipse and the structure in java, are those videotutorials 
> downloadable?

>From what I see on the page, they can only be viewed online.

> ... anyway so much about me, i also have some questions about Red5, 
> couldent find the answhere by myself,
> would be very nice if someone could answhere them.

Okay, I'll try to answer at least a few ;)

> 1) what about a user-group-rights-managment, havent done anything yet 
> within red 5 (whithout reading everything and playing around)
>     but looks to me like Red5 is "actually" a pure broadcasting engine, 
> is that right, will that change?

User management currently is not available in Red5.  We concentrated
on the core features and a stable server API that can be used by
applications.  Thus Red5 isn't only a broadcasting engine, but also
supports server-side logic, shared objects, remoting and basically
everything that can be done using Java.  For 0.6 we also plan to
support scripting languages.

> 2) what about a database, i actually saw wheter a internal nor a jdbc 
> conector, will there be one?

There possibly will be no "builtin" connector, but you can use any
Java library with Red5.

> 3) what about... uhm i dosent read much about spark(spark server from 
> osflash list) but i saw many articles
>    about spark and red5 together ... will them later be designed to work 
> together (as far as i did understand
>    spark will be an applicationserver for web 2.0 issues... like 
> openlaszlo but with a javascript(ajax like) output)

Sorry, I don't know anything about Spark.

> 4) something surely often asked but it interests me, what about plans of 
> a "xml" - socketconnection
>     i read about in the chatlog and also clustering... iam asking that 
> because also the question for
>     internet phone support had been asked in the past(like i read on the 
> mailing list),
>     those 3 things(and some more) would be possible with a jabber(xmpp) 
> implementation or "interface"
>     i worked with xmpp over xmlsocket in flash and it works very good.

Support for XML sockets is planed for 0.6.

> 5) what system(os) do you recomend to let the server run on(later in a 
> web envoirement in a productive phase)
>     , windows, linux, OSX , solaris.... most MUS server run best on 
> linux or freebsd
>     but the fcs(now fms) had more free resources on windows afaik.

We didn't do real benchmarks yet, but from my personal experience such
servers usually run a lot better on Linux than on Windows.

> 6) mabe for the most (javaprogrammers) a stupid question... i saw the 
> way to deploy in red5 in the videotutorials
>    ... i know the modular way of extending a jabber server external 
> without recompiling. thats very different
>    must i later have my server compiled and ready with all features i 
> need builtin or will it be extendable?

Currently with only Java as server-side language, you will have to
recompile your application (but not Red5) after each change.  This will
become easier once we support scripting.

> 7) last but not least,.... there are less informations about the team 
> itselfs.... well iam not interestet in ur
> underwearsize but also after many hours of reading... i even doesent 
> know who actualy is core developer team member,
> who started red 5 project or who does what, would be nice to even know a 
> litle bit more than
> there is a joachim, a luke, a james and a....in the core dev team (sorry 
> if i´d missed a important name).

:) Well, maybe this is something we can add to the red5.org website
when it's online sometime in the future...  Oh, and we don't have a
James but a John ;)

> hope this mail, or parts of it, arent to much off topic for this list.

Not at all.

> ps. i read about the Chatmeeting  at, somehow 4pm gmt, and as i tried to 
> connect i was told to
> join "register" first.. anyway couldent connect otherwise i would had 
> been asked in c

The chatmeeting was at 2pm GMT (that's 4pm in Germany).  Where did you
try to connect to?  In IRC you shouldn't need to register.

Cheers from Stuttgart,
Joachim