SGS possible to support other languages?

Networking & Multiplayer
#1

Hi,

I’m doing a research on SGS for a project. Understands that SGS currently supports J2ME, J2SE and C++, would like to know if it can support other languages like Macromedia Flash (actionscripting)?

I was thinking if it’s possible to write a prog to communicate between the supported APIs to the intended languages used for the development. Erm, can HTTP work?

#2

doesn’t marco… euhm adobe have an j2ee server in its portfolio? I’m sure theres somelink between the 2 posible.

http will not really work next to it beeing stateless, the request-response model that it follows has it limitations with respect to fast paceness. sure there are games who don’t have those requirements but whats the use of using darkstar and not some servlet?

I doubt actionscript will be powerfull enough to port the client, thus you need an additional layer and it won’t fit on the client due to security issues and an extra layer on the server will kill functionality / performance

I’ve never done big things with flash and I stay away from it mostly so I might be off but this would be my hypothesis if I would have to start researching it.

#3

Okay,

To being with, anything that allows you to call out to C code you can use the C++ API.

Other then that we have so far only ported the API to J2SE, C++ (portable) and J2ME. We have some other languages we’d like to supprot in the future but they are still on the drawing board. If a college student or someone like that wnats to take a crack at doing a port to another language they should contact me directly and Ill see what can be done in terms of providing source and some basic support.

HTML really isnt a language, its a mark-up protocol ontop of HTTP. We use HTTP in our J2ME protocol. If you wanted to have a website that talked to the SGS however you would have to do one of three things:

(1) Write a servlet for the abckend that ran in a web-server and used the J2SE API to talk to the SGS.

(2) Write your own proxy that talked HTTP/HTML to the client and used one of the existing APIs to tlak to the SGS.

(3) Come up with something brilliant and code the UserManager portion yourself as a stack extensiopn. (The stack extension docs are coming in the EA2 release.)

#4

thanks for the advice and suggestion. i will look into it. :wink:

#5

??? erm, when will EA2 be released?

#6

Target is Java One… which is only a few weeks away.

#7

cool! guess i will do my stuffs and wait for the release in the meanwhile. 8)