On 9/14/06, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks a lot for the valuable reply Chris! >
No Problem. > What I don't understand though is this uni-direcional/bi-directional thing, > I'm not that good in network socket programming after all, all I have used > was Flash Remoting (which is unidirecional if I understood this concept > right). > Yes, that's right. It's one direction, the client needs to make a request. In other words the client initiates the call. > By bi-direcional I mean something such FMS where you data get sent to the > app by the server (pull method?) > That's actually push. In the case of bi-directional or a socket connection you can do pull and push. Server -> client = push, Client -> Server = pull. Think of a socket as a pipe that's opened up and information can flow in both directions. Peter explained it pretty well for you, but hopefully both of us explaining will help you get it straight. > Thanks again, > > Marcelo. > > > On 9/14/06, Chris Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > yes > > > > > > > > > On 9/14/06, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hey bob... this XMLSocket technique is bi-direcional? > > > > > > > > > > > > On 9/14/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > On 9/14/06, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > osflash mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > osflash mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > j:pn > > > http://www.lennel.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > osflash mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
