wschat

Grails websocket chat Plugin provides a multi-chat room add-on to an existing grails based site/application.

How to install

Configuration variables required

3.0.9 must have these configuration items to work

Version info

Creating admin accounts

Customised chat menus for your chat users

Customise fonts chat output through css

Internationalisation

How to use configure Live chat & Chat Bot

Add profile with taglib connection call

Chat room booking/reservations

WebtRTC WebCam walk through

WebtRTC File sharing

Integrating with existing grails application

Videos on youtube:

1. Video: grails app running wschat 0.14 part1

2. Video: grails app running wschat 0.14 part2

3. Video: Client/Server Messaging part 1. Earlier version focus on backend control of socket messages. So the backend of your application. Override a service for this. Explained in links further below.

4. Video: Client/Server Messaging part 2 (Messages via websockets to frontend). In short update frontend via websocket callbacks.

5. Video: 1.12 Chat room booking/reservations

6. Video: 1.22 Multiple login with same Chat user and TicTacToe

7. Video 1.23 Add Live chat to your grails application

8. Video 1.23-SNAPSHOT1 Live chat Logs BOT Artificial Intelligence and more

9. Video 1.24 Chat BOT now working in chat rooms, returning responses and banning/kicking users

10. Video 1.25 LiveChat (1 room multiple users with 1 admin interacting with all)

11. Video 3.0.6 1.27 LiveChat monitoring and changing live chat style/colours

12. Video 3.0.9 Spring security

Chat Commands

STUN Server, setting up your own server & WebRTC-terminology

0.10+ & resources based apps (pre 2.4)

ChatClientEndPoint Client/Server Messaging new feature since 1.11

How to screen capture

Chat to DB

1.13 Offline Messaging - enable override

demo sites

Known issues

Thanks to

Grails wschat release/feature summary:

3.0.6/1.27 	- Major tidyup removed most ajax processing besides popup pages. 
			  Added css/internationlisation customisation
			  
3.0.5/1.26	- Tidy up with new look and new feature to monitor Live Chat requests
3.0.4/1.25  - Live Chat Many users to 1 admin (Video 10).

3.0.3/1.24  - ChatBot and badWords added to the main chat room

3.0.3/1.23  - Live Chat feature added as part of the plugin(watch video 7)

3.0.3/1.21  - Websocket TicTacToe game added (Watch video 6)

3.0.3/1.20  - Multiple login with same user but must be different rooms - removal of dbSupport check

1.18 -  Mediastreaming enabled but has not worked for me 
   
1.17  - Websocket -> WebRTC File sharing peer2peer available -  
  
1.12  - Chat room bookings for multiple participants
   
1.0+  - Supports WebRTC currently only on Chrome Canary.

0.19+ - Supports webcam tested  on chrome/firefox.

Admin can:  kick/Ban (for specified time period)
Users can create profiles define details and upload photos.
Chat rooms can be created in Config.groovy +/ DB once logged in using UI.

You can websocket :
	send files / use webRTC technology to have video chat or share screen
	play Tictactoe / noughts + crosses
	Live chat - set up a client easily and monitor live chats
	Configure chat bookings / invite external attendees (emails)