Project Description

Background Information

Nowadays, Instant Messenger are become popular over the world. Famous Instant Messenger including ICQ, AOL, Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger. However, as their protocol are privately defined, therefore, the server loading is very heavy as they are the ONLY ONE to host such services.

I have developed CityICQ (A web-based ICQ) before. However, I found that it is no good to develop a web-based client on exist instant messenger protocol as it is always been restricted by the instant messenger server (For example, ICQ).

Abstract

The aims of this project is to focus on the above weakness of traditional Instant Messenger. The only solution is to develop a Distributed Instant Messenger Protocol Open Standard. In this project, we can divide the project into three core parts:

• Protocol Standard
• Web-based Client Program (Use for communicate with server program)
• Server Program (Base on our protocol defined)

Last Update: 12-09-2001