I'm not sure what type of chatroom functionality you're looking for, but you might have options through Jabber Instant Messenger (www.jabber.org), which includes a groupchat transport. I have personally been looking at ways to implement the groupchat using a Java applet for specific projects managed through an intranet. As in Lotus Quickplace, when a team member loads the project homepage, I would like for the applet to load automatically, indicating the online presence of other team members and providing the groupchat function. Ideally, this would take advantage of existing zope authentication. I know LDAP and ODBC user storage has been implemented in the CVS version of the Jabber server, so it should be able to query the same user database as zope. There is also an effort to implement the Jabber server and groupchat transport in python at pyjama.sourceforge.net. Information regarding java functionality, including a sample applet I think, can be found at jabberbeans.org. I would love to hear from anyone interested implementing this type of integration between Jabber and Zope. Good luck, David Message: 66 Reply-To: <Danny@Adair.net> From: "Danny William Adair" <Danny@Adair.net> To: "Aleksander Salwa" <ololo@zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl>, <zope@zope.org> Subject: Re: [Zope] ChatRoom Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:07:10 +0200 charset="us-ascii" The most awesome - though commercial - chat system that I know of, is "SpinChat": homepage: http://chat.spin.de/en/index.shtml try one of the demos: http://chat.spin.de/en/demos/index.shtml or see it in action and chat with others: http://www.spinchat.com It's a highly configurable java chat system. I would rather like to see one of the OpenSource Chats get integrated into Zope (e.g. get pseudonym from LoginManager UserSource, integrate administration in Zope management interface etc.), I'm not very happy with ZRTChat. http://www.zope.org/Members/jwashin/ZRTChat It's a great example and "100% Zope", but it will (would) need a lot of enhancements for prod sites. Danny -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]Im Auftrag von Aleksander Salwa Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. August 2000 14:30 An: zope@zope.org Betreff: [Zope] ChatRoom Not Zope specific, but may be important for many web-masters... Some days ago I was told to make a chatroom in our site. I took a look at some products, but no one has satisfied me yet. If anybody knows about _good_ chatroom, please let me know ! Where _good_ means: + highly customizable view of the chatroom + non-flickering refresh (I used jzChat from www.javazoom.net, but it uses JavaScript on client side, so refresh is flickering) So, it should be Java applet on client side. It can be almost anything on server side - Java servlet, Java stand-alone application, native binary program, standard IRC server, CGI script, Zope Product, etc... I don't need many channels at one time. If you have seen (almost) ready-to-use chatroom solution, your help is greatly appreciated ! :) ololo@zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl /--------------------------------------\ | `long long long' is too long for GCC | \--------------------------------------/ _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )