Re: Virtual Meetings

I wonder if in place of messages between users, the messages could
be ones generated on the system and then "pushed" or multicasted to
a group of users.

Sorry for the delay in responding, Bryan. I've been researching the topic TCP/IP multicasting and ruminating about it. But you raise a good question. The server in my sample application is written in RPG and uses a streamlined API to just wait for a message to be placed on a data queue, then simultaneously multicasts it to any number of browser listeners, then loops back to wait for the next message. So any program that can write to an IBM i data queue could use the server to easily multicast messages to browsers. The "Meeting ID" is the key. In the mean time the Multicast Server and the browsers just remain in wait states.

Maybe something like qsysopr messages, incoming sales figures,
etc. Very interesting indeed.

Good examples. Any program monitoring IBM i events such as system messages or any other event could multicast to browsers. Just write the message to a data queue; that's all.

-Nathan.