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PixServer – AMF game server

I’m back to the scene… with an empty hard drive.
That’s THE bad news, I lost all my data one month ago. Around 10 years of storage without any backup. That really sucks.
The good one is that it gives to me lot of punch to start from scratch 4 new projects. They’re all linked together, but I’ll give you details later about the connection.

So let me introduce the first one.
I needed a multi-users game server. So after some googling to browse OS projects, I decided to build a new one from scratch with Apache Mina 2.0 using my R&D xp.
I choosed to install Ubuntu with Parallels to have an easy workflow with a local test workstation.

At this time, I’ve obtained something basic which works fine. That’s full AMF (using BlazeDS ) and it manages users and rooms.
That’s all based on simplicity. No events, no verbosed implementation or mess with abstract design…

My next step and goals:
- Have something robust.
- Build a graphical chat showcase with text to speech feature.
- Build a game showcase with realtime synchronicity. I read a lot of resources about it, and I’m looking forward to work on this.

But I’m wondering about few things at this time:
- Should I go to open source ?
- Should I mix this implementation with Darkstar project ?
- Should I work on a cheap product ?
Any advice would be welcome !

Here’s a basic echo demo to end this thread and showcase the concept:

import net.tweenpix.pixserver.amf.AMFClient;
 
	public class EchoAMFClient 
	{
		protected var _client : AMFClient;
 
		public function EchoAMFClient() 
		{
			_client = new AMFClient( );
			_client.registerClass( TestVO );
			_client.connect( "10.211.55.4", 9123 );
 
			_client.addEventListener( "EchoMessage",  onEchoMessage );
			_client.sendRequest( 	"EchoMessage", 
								new TestVO( "francis", 38 ), 
								new TestVO( "virginie", 35 ) );
		}
 
		public function onEchoMessage( vo1 : TestVO, vo2 : TestVO ) : void
		{
			// do something
		}
	}

Tags: actionscript, amf, client, java, library, multi-users, server, tech, work