Babylon Chat

Babylon Chat can be used for both 'whiteboard' drawing and text conferencing.

Babylon Chat supports the traditional 'chat' functionality with line-by-line communication rather than character-by-character. This was chosen both for ease of implementation and to better support conferences with large numbers of participants.

However, in order to make this configuration more fluent, the program will indicate whether another user is currently drawing or typing some text to send.

Here are some key features of "Babylon Chat":

￭ A drawing canvas with freehand drawing, lines, ovals, rectangles fonted text, and images from files. ￭ Client can be launched as an applet in HTML documents. ￭ Chat rooms, public or private. ￭ Private chatting ("whisper mode") between individuals. ￭ An 'answering machine' style messaging service. ￭ Instant messaging. ￭ Users with audio-enabled systems can be 'paged' with sounds. ￭ The server can be queried to provide information about the users currently online.

Requirements:

￭ Java Runtime Environment