Flex 2 and Red 5 Chat Live Example

I did not put a working example of the Basic Chat example using Flex 2 and Red 5 up on my server early. I needed to install Red 5 to be able to put it up. I wasn’t sure when I was going to be able to get to it so I posted the code first. I had some free time this morning and decided to give the Red 5 server install a try. It was not terrible bad, and I’ll try and write up my install experience later. But for now the working online basic chat example can be found at:

http://renaun.com/flex2/red5/BasicChat.html

You can view the source by right clicking on the application.

I had some issues with the Red 5 server running even when I logged off the server. I think i have it worked out with a nohup for now. I will need to figure out how to install red5 with a proper start and stop script. If any one knows send me an email…

I have made some minor updates to the live examples, default button and auto scroll position.

Links of Interest: Chatear

8 comments October 13th, 2006

VitalStream being acquired by Internap

You can find the news release here.

The deal is worth about $217 million and is to happen by first quarter 2007. Here is the main quote from the CEO of VitalStream:

“Internap’s acquisition of VitalStream is a business combination that creates a scalable public company with complementary product lines and accelerated growth potential. We believe that this is an exciting value proposition for our customers including unparalleled distribution, network quality and customized solutions, as well as aunique alternative for investors.” said Jack Waterman, chairman and chief executive officer of VitalStream. “The new Internap will offer turnkey digital media broadcasting solutions for web users of all sizes. By uniting our two organizations, customers will have a complete solution to realize the full on-line potential of their digital assets.”

First of all this is very interesting because I have been following Internap for years now. Back when it was a penny stock and not so profitable. I liked Internap’s IP and what they were doing at the time as it was something I thought should be offered to more business at a cheaper price. But custom high quality routing of internet traffic is not that cheap I guess.

Internap has grown quite well over the years and with this move they are moving into more of the mainstream then just Enterprise clients. Internap can definetly help VitalStreams services in terms of latency and routing, but I can’t remember how much CDN type services Internap has.

Its interesting to see the one of Internap’s clients is Adobe it self. They have a very impressive list of clients to say the least.

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Flex 2 and Red 5 Chat Example

I have created a basic chat example using Flex 2 and Red 5. The purpose of this example is not so much about building a Red 5 server application but getting Flex 2 to work with an existing Red 5 sample server application.

All you’ll need to do is install Red 5 and make sure the samples work. You can find more information on Red 5 at http://osflash.org/red5, If you do use a non default install of Red 5 you’ll need to change the NetConnection connection URL from rtmp://localhost/fitcDemo to the appropriate value.

This basic chat example demonstrates how to force Flex 2 to use AMF0 and get around the Flex 2 NetConnection and SharedObject not being dynamic. Hopefully the example is basic enough to not require a big long walk through.

You can get the example here.

The live example is located at http://renaun.com/flex2/red5/BasicChat.html

Links of Interest: Chat

28 comments October 13th, 2006