Comments on: Building a Multi-user Chat Server with xSocket, Java, and Flash CS3

By: Chad Lung

Chad Lung — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:35:47 +0000

@Aaron,

I’m not sure I understand your question. You can go through the connections and get details on each.

Chad

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:29:49 +0000

Awesome! I’ve returned to working on this finally! I have been able to get everything working on a remote server with multiple clients (using Dreamhost). I do have a question I was hoping you could help with. What do you recommend for “labeling” each of the connections? An example of what I want to do is if the chatroom has 5 users: UserA…UserE and let’s say UserB sends a message specifically to UserC. Is there a way that Java can check the “label” of the connection as it iterates through the Set of connections? Thanks in advanced for the help!

By: Chad Lung

Chad Lung — Sat, 29 May 2010 22:04:51 +0000

@Aaron,

You need something like this on GoDaddy:
http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/virtual-dedicated-server.aspx

I had mine running on linode.com without any problems (and cheaper than GoDaddy).

Chad

By: Aaron Hathaway

Aaron Hathaway — Sat, 29 May 2010 00:45:49 +0000

This tutorial is great! I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now! I have a question though. Right now I have a Linux hosting account through GoDaddy. I want to get this up on the internet somehow. Is it possible with my current setup? And if so, how? All help would be great!

By: Sebb

Sebb — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:51:32 +0000

Hey!

started learning java recently, and have been trying to do a php socket server to no avail, but this is da |33t ro><0rz!

thx alot

By: Prakash

Prakash — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:47:31 +0000

Hi,

plz any one help me to solve this. i created a sample application similar to this tutorial(i copied almost this tutorial code). im able to revieve messages from flash’s XMLSocket to java server but im not able to send any data from java to XMLSocket. im getting the below error message in java console.

channel is closed (read buffer size=0)

thanks and regards,
Prakash

By: Chad Lung

Chad Lung — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:38:08 +0000

@Seantron,

Have you turned on the Flash Player Debugging/Logging? I’d try that with your live server before having to send the policy file through port 843 then connecting to 8090.

Chad

By: Seantron

Seantron — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:46:34 +0000

Fixed it guys.

If anyone is interested. I made a secondary server which listens on port 843, and only writes up Policy Files. Then I connect to the one that is on 8090 with no problems at all.

Bam.

By: Seantron

Seantron — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:07:55 +0000

Yeah, sorry, but this totally doesn’t work anymore.

Here’s what is going on:

onConnect
Incoming data:
Cross Domain is written
Data Failure: channel is closed

So yeah, that’s of course on a live server. If you run it locally of course it works like a charm because the stupid Policy isn’t even called.

If anyone has gotten this to work on a Live Server, I’d be very interested in what you had to do.

Thanks.

By: eric

eric — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:04:49 +0000

I was hoping to use this with a game and I got the demo working fine;really well done. I was thinking that I should let all the computers update the server and then send out the data I one batch rather than at one time for efficiency. All the examples I see send back the data immediately. Is this the best way? I tried to create an array with the updated values in my data handler class but it does not seem to hold the values. I also put a timer there and was going to update all clients with the arrays contents. I am not sure if this is related to ho the thread process data or I am doing something wrong. The values come in but when the timer hits the values are different. Any help on how best to do this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,