WebORB Beta 3 status update

There has been a lot of work on the Beta 3 release. As mentioned before the primary focus of Beta 3 is interactive messaging. The new features will let both Flash and AJAX clients do the following:

• Subscribe to messaging 'channels' and broadcast and receive messages
• Send messages which can be strings, primitives, dates, complex types
• Send private messages to individual clients
• AJAX clients can send messages to Flash apps and vice versa
• Client apps can receive automatic updates when new users/apps join/leave their channels
• Client apps can receive events from the server side, that is Java or .NET program's can broadcast or send point-to-point messages to AJAX or Flash clients

Neither Flash nor AJAX implementation uses polling. Rich Client System and WebORB implement push technology. We're also thinking about adding support for shared objects, but that may slip into Beta4.