Java Help. Displaying if users connect to page.

#1 · 08-03-2006 07:35PM #1

i've been lookin for this for while now. i cant seem to find it. i have a webpage. it has an applet on it. is there any way i can get it to say something like "2 users connected"? i need to make a java program that lets users interact with each other and this is a pretty big part.

can anyone help or even point me in the right direction?

java newb btw.

thanks

NutJob · 08-03-2006 08:37PM

Do u mean an irc chat applet.

if u do google it and ull find a ton of free ones
http://www.google.ie/search?q=irc+chat+applet

The_B_Man · 08-03-2006 09:23PM

no, its a multiplayer game im making.

this is only the beginning of it. i need to keep track of the users. i was considering session cookies of some sort. and ill also need get-post requests to send data to the applet so it knows wats goin on ie the players move!

The_B_Man · 09-03-2006 05:58PM

actually, i might stick a PHP backend on it. then just use POST requests from the applet to the PHP backend. would that be easier? any help?

pH · 09-03-2006 06:58PM

The applet is allowed open sockets back to the server it came from, so you could communicate using PHP pages or jsp using http-put and get. It get's trickier if you want the server to message the client with events -that will rely on a continous tcp/ip stream opened from the client.

You could 'fake' server messaging by making the clients continually poll, but that's a nasty hack.

If you have total access to the server you could write a simple java app that listened on a port which the applet can open.

Java Help. Displaying if users connect to page.

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