I agree with Sean, We are using his XIFF library to connect to our Jabber Server that was written in .NET. Currently there is a Chat application and IM. I am now onto trying to develop a whiteboard. All done in flash.
Something that you need to remember is that Flash movies are cross platform, cross browser compatable. Even more so than Java. And it is even more widely accepted. Oh, and Flash is ADA compliant. Keith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Voisen Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 9:32 AM To: Jabber software development list Subject: Re: [jdev] Jabberd2, Flash Client and terminator character... On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Richard Dobson wrote: > Also IMO it would be a bad idea to use Flash as an enterprise > development platform, its not really suited to that purpose IMO and > you will be limiting yourself using it, IMO for proper enterprise web > applications you would be far better using Java. Honestly, unless you are deeply familiar with Flash's capabilities and its community, I wouldn't comment on the fact that Flash isn't suited for enterprise development! Take a look at Macromedia Flex. Take a look at Convoq ASAP (built entirely with Flash) and tell me it wouldn't be great with Jabber support alongside the other IM protocols. Flash is entirely well-suited for the rich-client portion of enterprise development. It is not meant to supplant Java, but rather live along-side it as the client of choice. Where I work we are building a multi-million dollar enterprise application for the insurance industry that is Java on the backend with a full Flash UI in a 3-tier system that interacts with the Java business logic using J2EE remoting. So, to say that Flash is not suited to enterprise development is clearly wrong. As for Jabber/XMPP, I know for a fact that there is growing support in the Flash community to use Flash with XMPP. A good deal of this support was initiated either by me, with the XIFF project, or by others being inspired by the release of Gush. So, if Flash socket support never makes it into Jabberd2, I'd say it's a loss for both sides, and XMPP needs all the help it can get, IMO. With the eminent release of the AOL Presence SDK for Macromedia Central, it's only a matter of time before Flash developers jump on the presence/IM bandwagon, and I'd hate to see it limited to AIM. - Sean Sean Voisen Weblog: http://voisen.org Flash/XMPP: http://xifflabs.com XIFF 2.0: http://www.jabberstudio.org/projects/xiff _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://jabberstudio.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://jabberstudio.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
