[Red5] The Future of the Red5 War Version

[Gordon Leland Hempton]

Can someone from the Red5 team tell me what direction the War version of
Red5 is going to take officially? Is it going to stay how it is or is it
going to change?

I ask this because it seems that for many people (myself included), neither
the Red5 standalone version nor the Red5 War version fits their needs
perfectly, however the latter seems to come closest. In my case (and others
looking at the list), it would be most convenient for Red5 to be more of a
library that can be used inside of a normal webapp. For instance, there
would be a class that could be instantiated as a Spring bean or through
other means that would serve as the Red5 server. I can see how having Red5
as a beefy standalone server parallels fms and has its uses, but for people
who are developing serious custom applications on top of Red5, there is
usually no need for there to be more than a single application on the
server. Moreover, integrating some of the functionality that Red5 provides
into an existing java backend is not nearly as clean as it could be due to
Red5's architecture.

I have been using Red5 (keeping up to date with the trunk) on a project for
the last several months and have stripped down the war version's
configuration substantially in an attempt to more closely resemble what I
have described above. I am considering taking this a step further and
cleaning up what I have done and putting up a fork of Red5 on google code or
something, but I am curious if Red5 is considering a move in this direction?

Thanks,
Gordon
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