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- API & Extension - jChatBox is opened to Designers and Programmers. Designers can customize JSP files to provide their own HTML/CSS/JavaScript skin. They should use a provided skin (Multilanguage, mIRC, Classic, j-TV) as a starting point. They could easily modify colors, layout, fonts, labels, ... Designers can modify jcbskin.xml to provide their own Applet skin. They should use a provided skin (Multilanguage, eXtremeSUN, Manga, Comics) as a starting point. They could easily modify colors, images, layout, fonts, labels, ... [Learn more about Applet skins] Designers can rely on FLASH5 script and API to write their own FLASH5&6MX client. Thanks to the XMLConnector service jChatBox is now ready for FLASH5+ clients. Designers can write one using our script that provides the communication layer with any jChatBox server.[Learn more FLASH5 Script]
Programmers can extend jChatBox :
They can add more languages and support to jChatBox through XML resources files under $JCHATBOX_HOME/WEB-INF/conf/ folder. New resources files have to be declared in jchatbox.xml to be loaded on Runtime. <element> tags could be added (but not removed) and used in custom skins : "login.test.label" key could be added in resources_en.xml (and all others XML resources files) : <element> <name>login.test.label</name> <value>A label for testing</value> </element> and used in custom login.jsp based on multilanguage skin only through : <%= chatroomBundle.getString("login.test.label") %> They can implement their own client (HTML/JavaScript, Applet, Flash, Java Application). They only need API (JavaDoc) to know how to interact with jChatBox server-side. HTML/JavaScript skin are also a good starting point. They can implement additional filters by extending jChatBox.Chat.Filter.Filter abstract class. Filters are declared in jchatbox.xml and loaded at Runtime. Filters must implement Serializable. Developers have to implement process(String input) and init method. _id, _name and _description fields should be filled in in this constructor with no arguments. See Emoticons open source filter sample in jChatBox Add-Ons section. They can implement additional Transcript by extending jChatBox.Chat.Transcript.Dump abstract class. Transcript implementation is declared in jchatbox.xml and loaded at Runtime. Developers have to implement process(Chatroom room, String filename) and init method. _id, _name and _description fields should be filled in in this constructor with no arguments. See XMLTranscriptor open source implementation sample in jChatBox Add-Ons section. [Browse jChatBox JavaDoc]
jChatBox provides XML formated content : jChatbox is now opened to XML through the XMLConnector service. Anyone can communicate to a jChatBox server to get chatroom's info and content as XML. That's way it's easy to create remote clients like FLASH5+, APPLETS or anything that could "speak" XML. Thanks to the XMLConnector service you can also create XSL skins, so plugged to an XSLT processor you can transform chatroom's content into documents viewable for many devices (PC, Mobile, PDA ...). [Learn more about XMLConnector]

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