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I’m currentliy setting up a workshop for Flash based multi player games and since I wanted to use MilGra again, I checked back with the homepage to get a fresh download.

Surprisingly, I found that Milan Toth released version 0.8 of his opensource lightweight Flash streaming server already back in June. So, although this is no steaming hot news, I thought it to be worth mentioning, since MilGra turned out to be really easy to set up and use: simply unpack and start the milgra.jar with your console/dos shell (with Java 1.5 installed).

In version 0.8 MilGra comes with a very sophisticated set of features. So, if you’re trying to get into developing multi user Flash applications with Java, this is an excellent way to start.

Check out the details on the project homepage.

Apearently, the book that I suggested to look out for in my presentations on flash server solutions is finally available in stores.

Taken from the abstract of “The Essential Guide to OpenSource Flash Development”, the book introduces the reader into an OpenSource based workflow and provides hands on material on the most established and advanced OpenSource software solutions around Flash such as Papervision3D, AMFPHP and Red5.

And besides the interesting topics, the impressive lineup of authors including many well known developers such as Wade Arnold and Aral Balkan fuels the hope for sophisticated content.

Definitely worth a look, I’d say.