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ConferenceRoom was designed
around a high performance multi threaded core. This
allows ConferenceRoom unparalleled performance when
dealing with thousands of operations per second. ConferenceRoom
was originally designed in 1995 and was one of the
first servers on the market to be multi threaded.
J. Oikarinen and D. Reed developed
a text chat protocol in 1993 that has become the defacto
standard for almost all of the text chat servers on
the Internet. ConferenceRoom while adding many enhancements
fully supports this protocol.
ConferenceRoom includes the ability
for users to register their nicknames and rooms as
well as send memos to one another. Or, you can hook
up ConferenceRoom via its external methods to a database
of your choice and create your own version of services.
This would be the preferred method for an existing
online community that wishes to integrate the chat
server with their existing community.
The Enterprise Edition of ConferenceRoom
supports an interface to allow custom code to interface
with the chat server directly. For UNIX platforms,
the custom code must be supplied in the form of a
shared object (.so) file. For WIN32 platforms, the
custom code must be supplied in the form of a DLL
file. See the Support FAQ for more information.
You can bind ConferenceRoom to a
single IP address if the system it's running on has
multiple addresses. This process is called port binding
whereby the application will only answer to a specified
port on a specified address. The first port has to
be unique to that instance of CR. The rest of the
ports can be bound to any IP on the system. See the
Support FAQ for more information.
Channels
Length: 60
Allowed: Must start with a #, may not contain a
space or comma.
Nicknames
Length: 30
Allowed Characters:
0-9
A-Z
a-z
|{}[]^-_
May not start with a dash or digit.
Real Name Field
Length: 500 characters
Allowed: Anything is allowed in the real name field.
The EventWizard feature is part
of the Enterprise Edition only. If you use the manual
method of cut and paste for a moderated chat, you
will love this panel as everything is automated. Keep
in mind that you cannot copy or cut from the JAVA
applet, which is one of the reasons why the EventWizard
was created. See the Support FAQ for more information.
ConferenceRoom (Professional and
Enterprise Editions) support linking two servers together
to create redundancy and expand the quantity of users
that the network can support. The Pro Edition has
the ability to have 1,000 users so linking two of
them together would give the network a capacity of
2,000 users. To the end user this appears to be just
a single server. See the Support FAQ for more information.
ConferenceRoom includes a high performance
Web Server for use with the Chat server. This server
has many built in features to enhance and enable the
java and flash chat interfaces. As an example you
can create a live web page that shows the current
topic and the number of users and then code the HTML
to automatically have the client join that specific
room when clicked on. See the Support FAQ for more
information.
Scripting
ConferenceRoom's included web
server offers an advanced language for embedding
commands and interactivity in the web pages it serves.
Some of these features are used in our theme pages
and administration pages. A thorough understanding
of these features will allow you to build more interesting
and interactive web pages.
Global Variables
Variables will allow you to place
replacement strings inside of your html and param
files. This can be handy when you want to change
the look at feel of a variety of pages quickly.
Or to have a single place to make changes. As an
example you can take a look at the variables theme,
variable.var, and variable.prm files.
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