AIR 2.0 brings a lot of new features. Among them is the new ServerSocket class. The Socket class exists since Flash 9 and enabled a lot of new client/server applications. But it has always been limited to client side sockets as long as AIR (and the Flash Platform as a whole for that matter) is concerned. Therefor, this new server socket feature makes it possible to build actual server software using AIR!
Rich of this new and incredible ability, Christophe Coenraets posted a small but yet very powerful code snippet to build an HTTP web server using AIR 2.0!
rSoul is my very first public AIR application. It is an open-source NetSoul client. Since NetSoul is not a commonly used protocol it won’t be useful for many people. Still, the NetSoul protocol is mandatory when you want to have access to the PIE (Parc Informatique de l’EPITA). And the source might help anyone willing to build his very first AIR application. The user interface is very light and I tried to keep it as simple and as intuitive as possible.
Like any other AIR application, rSoul is cross-platform and works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. You can install it and get the sources from the rSoul website:
http://rsoul.promethe.net
Here are a few screenshots:
Features
This first release includes the following features:
- Online/Away/Busy status
- Location configuration
- “Remember Password” option
- Auto-connect option
- Contacts list
- Add/Remove contacts
- Tabbed chat
- Auto-update
- Connection errors handling
Known issues
- Some special characters are not handled correctly
- The application does not (yet) minimize itself to the system tray
- Contacts status is not updated
If you found any bug or have any suggestion please feel free to add a comment…
Tonight I attended the “TonTon Flexeurs” (TTFX) meeting with Lee Brimelow and Mike Chambers. While Lee explained all the things that can be done to extend the Flash Platform using the ByteArray class, Mike presented a few of the latest as3corelib library features and a sneak peek of AIR 2.0. AIR 2.0 – codename “Athena” – will feature a lot of new system related updates. Discover a few of them (including a worldwide exclusive!) right after the jump…
You can also look at Michael Chaize’s event photo album on Flickr!
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