<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>Le 12 déc. 06 à 08:06, Siddharth Pareek a écrit :</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"> hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"> I have to write a chat server in erlang. Do any one have an idea or has done this work before so that I can get guidance related to it. </FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Depending on what you want to achieve you have several approach:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- If you need a chat server for your work, that rely on standards, maybe you could just simply reuse an existing one like ejabberd:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/">http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- If you want to write a chat server for learning or if you do not need to support standards, you could simply write a chat client in pure Erlang based on message passing mechanisms.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I hope this helps,</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Mickaël Rémond</DIV><DIV> <A href="http://www.process-one.net">http://www.process-one.net</A>/</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>