We are developing a chat room which can be embedded in web pages using flash and java. We have now got to a beta testing stage and are fairly confident that the code is quite robust and performing well.
The reason for posting you is two fold, onthe one hand, we?d like to see more extensive testing of our program and on the other, we support the open developer community and would like to gain your critical feedback and help provide a useful service.
Our program supports private messages (well it will very very soon!) and emotion icons. You can also change the text colour and type. The java socket also supports multiple rooms – as as soon as popularity rises we will add shortcuts to the chat client to jump to other rooms.
As mostbrowsers are supporting flash (we work in MX but publish as flash 5) most users should be able to use the chat client ? its entirly flash so no java plugin required, all the java work is done on our server.
We may need to stop and restart the server from time to time ? but this should not be a major problem as service outage should be short and infrequent
Our own web site has the client embedded ? http://web-engineer.co.uk
You can see from there how it is currently working. The look and feel can be custom adjusted as required should anyone be interested in our product.
Thanks