Re: MsgCommunicator v.2.00: Instant Messenger SDK, now with databases support

Btw ... there are also low-level UDP components included in the RTC SDK,
with a simple demo how to send and receive messages using UDP. It's only a
simple peer-to-peer client/server (in one), but it demonstrates how UDP
works and how RTC SDK can be used to write client/server applications using
the UDP protocol.

A problem with UDP is that, since UDP is a connection-less protocol, there
is no other way to return a response to the "called", than for the "caller"
to have a listening port open. Even though UDP is a fast protocol, this is
one limitation which I don't like about it (among other things).

If anyone is interested in this simple UDP demo (using the RTC SDK),
you can download it in executable form, here:
http://www.deltasoft.hr/rtc/free/UdpMessages.exe

And ... no, I didn't write this to compete with AidAim and I'm not
interested in writing a Messenger that would work over the UDP protocol.
This Demo was part of the RTC SDK before I've created the HTTP components
and I've decided to use the HTTP protocol for all high-level communication,
to avoid firewall and proxy problems (which all binary TCP/IP and UDP
protocols have when running over the Internet).

I don't think that AidAim and RTC SDK are competing against each other.
Since AidAim is using the UDP protocol, I'd say that AidAim's
MsgCommunicator is an excellent choice for in-house Messaging systems,
running inside corporate LANs, while RTC Messenger is designed to run over
the Internet, with zero firewall/router/proxy configuration for the Client.

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Danijel Tkalcec
http://www.deltasoft.hr/rtc/author.htm

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