As the Red5 media server continues to mature, new and exciting additions are announced with greater frequency. Once such addition to Red5 is the Jedai project. Anyone familiar with Flash Media Server knows that it provides a solid component library for rapid development of collaborative media applications. With the introduction of the Jedai project, Red5 is no longer lacking in the area.
The project consists of two main parts, the Jedia Networking Framework (JNF) and the Jedai Collaboration Suite (JCS). The Networking Framework delivers a development stack that “builds upon the services that most real-time applications need” such as user, stream and data management. The Collaboration Suite is a set of reusable components providing services such as authentication, text chat and video publishing and is designed to be used directly with the JNF. Leveraging these two pieces gives Red5 application developers a great deal of power and flexibility with a minimum of effort.
From the project developers themselves: “We have seen the need for this framework for quite some time, and here is our answer. Please, feel free to try it out and watch as it becomes a standard in real-time application development with Red5 and Flash.”
Check it out here: http://code.google.com/p/jedai/
