Im one of those "Thats a cool idea, Ill try it" kinds. Wife say I dont know the meaning of the
word "can't" or "No"....yeah well thats how I learn. Anyways I was talking to a friend the other day & he mentioned a sort of ICQ or AIM type program for a web site...just a cheaper version that only applied to anyone logged into the site at that time. He asked if I had any idea how or where to start....Havent a clue to be honest. The idea has been pestering me for several days now & now i think Id like to try it but as i said before I havent a clue where to start, if there's any open source for this or any API's that would deal with it. Ive been doing server side (mostly
servlets) for a while now but really havent ever seen anything like this. Anyone out there able to point me in the right direction or maybe like to work together on this..........I think if it can be done & was done well it could be a very cool package to offer to web sites.. I called this guy again today to see what info he had when a member logged in, what kind of server, servlet engine etc. Here's what I got:
Apache on Unix
Resin engine (1.2.7)
Logged to db once member enters site:
IP Address, email address, username etc.
A Session object that is tracked by a bindinglistener
Well any ideas? I think it would be very cool to try. From what he says he only wants to have one member be able to "beep" another member if they are logged on. From what I can see sending the message is a piece of cake.....its finding the other member to pop up a small window with the message that gets kind of hairy.........Love to know what you all think.
PS He also said he doesnt want a chat or anything like that He just wants one member to be able to beep another to invite them to the chat room or other things so it would be a simple message like "Hi there, user [username] has invited you to chat in the chat room" with an accept or decline button or something (thats not really mandatory but it would be a nice extra)
[This message has been edited by DC Dalton (edited September 03, 2001).]