Echo, echo, echo… I think I hear Open Source Flash Communication Server!

Congratulations to the Red5 team on attaining a very important milestone: Today, Luke Hubbard, one of the lead developers on the project, reported on the Red5 mailing list that he successfully got EchoService working. Basically, you can now send an object to the Red5 server and get it back.

What is Red5, you ask? It's a project on OSFlash that aims to create an Open Source Flash Communication Server. The speed at which the project is progressing is quite astounding. An Open Source Flash Communication Server alternative appears to be mere months away

Check out the Red5 web site and mailing list for more information or to get involved.

You can also read my latest OSFUN column on Flash Magazine for more on the latest Open Source Flash news.

Very impressive guys! I can't wait to see more (much more, from what I've heard) at OFLA Online.

The Echo, echo, echo… I think I hear Open Source Flash Communication Server! article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.

2 Comments

1. 
   Chris Allen
   1

   Thanks for the praise Aral. We really appreciate all the support that you have given us to get this project going, and therefore you and osflash.org are part of the reason that the project has been progressing at such a fast clip.

   One thing to note is that Red5 is not just planning on becoming an alternative to FCS, but it will also support many other features. In fact, our initial release is planning to be comparable to not only the Macromedia Flash Media Server 2, but also will have many of the features of the not yet released Macromedia Flex Enterprise Services 2. Take a look at the mission statement for a detailed description of the proposed offerings: http://osflash.org/doku.php?id=red5_missionstatement

   October 10th, 2005 at 8:25 pm
   
   
2. 
   david wu
   2

   Can you give me some example about how to develop a virtual classroom use flash ?

   I want to develop a virtual classroom that include video. chat room and witeboard function ,and so on.

   thanks .

   June 6th, 2006 at 5:05 am