New release..

2000-12-13T03:58:44Z

I've uploaded a new release, 2.0 pre2. This release has fixes for the handshaking that didn't work in pre1. I can't seem to get the release mechanism to behave though. You *can* download the files from the sourceforge ftp site. (ftp://ebjava.sourceforge.net/pub/ebjava/)

Update: SourceForge has fixed the release mechanism after an update to a bunch of their infrastructure. The latest release (2.0 pre2) is now available in the usual manner. I'm still testing and I've found another bug in the client receive message method; hopefully, I'll find some time over the Christmas break to fix the bug.

More progress..

2000-12-12T17:37:23Z

Well, I took some time and rewrote a little of the client NewU.java and the server EBNet.java. Fixed the handshaking so that now account creation works again. I'm going to try to fix the client EBNet.java such that it's in step with server EBNet.java -- hopefully tonight. After that's done I'll upload new client & server tar.gz's and create a new release. Hang in there...

...Kevin

File Mismatch, etc.

2000-11-15T15:00:53Z

We seem to still be having problems with file mismatches, etc. The 2.0 files from CVS match up with the .tar.gz files on the project page, but there is a problem with the protocol handshake between the EBNet.java on the client and EBNet.java on the server in this version. If you want to see the basic functionality, the 1.0 version stuff doesn't handshake correctly. I'm working with Chris to get the 2.0 stuff sorted out.

...Kevin

Status, file corruption, and all

2000-10-14T15:26:46Z

Looking in the various logs for this project, I'm still seeing an astonshingly large number of people looking into this thing every day, which tells me there is plenty of intrest for EBJava. Unfortunately I think these people will go away disappoitned.

On the developmental side of things, I have no time to work on EBJava anymore. With school and various other must-do projects, the optional ones get pushed off to the side. This is too bad, but hey, EBJava is very usable as it is now so I don't feel too bad. I did what I set out to do with it and won $250 by submitting it in a contest :)

The next bad thing is that Sourceforge seems hellbent on mangling my filereleases! Actually, I think the one I did just now worked, but maybe not. Oh well, all I know is that the version up on Sourceforge has been corrupt for many months, and people email me about it all the time. CVS is also out of whack for some reason.

Well anyway, everything will work, corrently. ICQ and AIM are supported, and working just fine. There is also plenty of room for making this thing better, so if anyone wants to take over development, PLEASE email me at volkris@tamu.edu and I will make sure the baton gets passed as quickly as possible.

I guess that's all I have to say. Good luck to all of you who are trying to set up EBJava.

Chris Carlin

Host Found!

2000-05-29T10:46:14Z

Big thanks to Everson Todoroki for helping to establish a (more) permanent host for EBJava. This will be our production server for now and should provide a much better solution than me using my own pc for it.

EBJava running on the new host can be found at http://eb.ol.com.br/EBJava.html (yep, he even set up a subdomain for this), and I'll get around to updating links and all soon.

There is, however a small catch: AIM now refuses to log on. I don't know exactly why it is doing this, as it was working just fine not too long ago, but I guess I will try to have this resolved within the next couple of days. Who knows, this might be the impetus that will get me working actively on EBJava again.

In any case, I'm leaving the server running as it is now, so drop me a line if you have a comment on how it performs. The server itself is a FreeBSD box running the Linux Blackdown JDK (I believe) and is plenty fast, though its connection to the Internet seems to lag a bit where it crosses out of its home country. Everson says to be prepared for mirrors in two other countries, though, so I guess soon I'll be running out of excuses as to why I havn't finished the project :)

Oh, and the user accounts were not moved to the new server, so everyone will have to recreate their accounts. I didn't think this would be too much of a problem for anyone, and I wanted to release the hundreds of screen names that will probably never be used again.

Enjoy,
Chris Carlin
volkris@cryogen.com

Host needed!

2000-05-20T06:30:03Z

We need someone to host this rather badly.
I don't have a connection that can do it, so if anyone reading this has a stable connection and preferably a subdomain (http://EBJava.<whatever>.com/ would be great), email me at volkris@cryogen.com.
All you need is a webserver capable of serving two pages and a Java runtime. No big deal.

~Chris Carlin

Welcome

2000-04-04T15:33:12Z

This program was submitted to a contest on March 31. With that over and done with, I can finally open it up to outside development and get to other stuff.
The applet side of it is pretty stable, with pretty good AIM support. ICQ support is iffy as my campus firewall prevents me from really testing it.
The server side is in need of major cleanup. It is barely stable, and probably needs to have major parts rewritten.
I call this release 1.0 as it is quite usable, but the code is a mess with no commenting at all. I will have to go back and do that when I have time.
I'm not really a programmer, so I'm hopeing to get some help expanding this project here at Sourceforge.