Chat program advice

[Andrew Parker]

HI,
I want to build a simple chat program and have no idea how to start from which languages?
Anyone knows that ICQ or AIM used which language to enable the instant chat session?
Java or VC++? which one is better?
Thanks
Andrew

[This message has been edited by Andrew Parker (edited January 02, 2002).]

[Cindy Glass]

VC++ !! are you trying to start a war???
You might look at Babylon Java Chat, which is open source.
Or if you need a servlet/xml version, go to google.com and search on "java chat servlets open source" or whatever and there is a bunch of stuff out there.
[This message has been edited by Cindy Glass (edited January 02, 2002).]

[Andrew Parker]

Thanks for your great reference.
Sorry, I should not post anything regarding MS here.
Happy New Year!
Andrew

[Andrew Parker]

I just want to clarify the program and do not intent to mention the MS products.
I start to be confused about the chat program.
I go to chat.yahoo.com - it is a java chat program that can have text, voice and video chat.
Is this kind of chat room called Internet Relay Chat (mIRC.com) - people can chat through the browser, and not required to install any software on the desktop?
On the other hand, the chat room in aol.com or excite.com which did require to download a software like AIM in order to chat in the browser. ICQ also has to be downloaded and let people to initiate the chat seesion. So, this kind of chat program was written by C++, VC++, Basic or VB?
How about the voice and video chat like clearphone.com? It needs the installation of quicktime for win2k and quicktime + netmeeting for win98. So, this kind of chat software was done by VC++ instead of java?
In conclusion, web-based chat program (do not need to download and install the software) was built by Java.
Others are done by VC++ or VB.
Maybe I am totally wrong.
Any advice?
Andrew

[Gregg Bolinger]

Web based chat programs are typically written in JAVA.
To find out what language Excite, AOL, ICQ, etc were written in, you would probably have to contact the respective companies.
I wonder what this topic has to do with Java in General??
Where is the JAVA question?

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Happy Coding,
Gregg Bolinger

[Cindy Glass]

If you don't have to download anything and it is written in Java, then the chat room must be an applet or a servlet.
If you make it a java application, then you would need to have the user download something to their hard drive.
All of which provides no way of telling which language the things were actually written in.

[Andrew Parker]

Thanks for both of your kind help. I think I messed up something.
Regards
Andrew