A recent discussion on our support forum brought up the struggle of sending enough details to the log files when an Exception is caught on the server side. In this article we provide a few options to improve error reporting in your Extensions and avoid those puzzling, single-line errors. Continue reading
HTML5 / JavaScript tutorials
We just published the first batch of HTML5 / JavaScript tutorials describing the following examples in details:
- Connector
Learn how to configure the client and make your first connection - Simple Chat
Learn how to create a basic chat environment for connected users - Advanced Chat
Learn how to create a complete browser-based chat application featuring public chat messaging, Rooms management, private chat messaging and more - Game Lobby
Learn how to create a “lobby” application where users can meet and invite each other to play games
All tutorials are available in our documentation website.
Kotlin and SmartFoxServer 2X, part 3
Kotlin and SmartFoxServer 2X, part 2
In the last article we’ve introduced Kotlin, a modern language for the JVM and now a Google approved language for Android development. We have shown how simple it is to use Kotlin on the server side to develop SmartFoxServer Extensions.
Now it’s the time to see how to integrate the SFS2X Java API with Kotlin to build a client application. Continue reading
Kotlin and SmartFoxServer 2X
You may have heard of the Kotlin language before, but recently it has seen a big spike in popularity thanks to Google officially adopting it for Android development, alongside Java and C++.
Kotlin is an interesting statically typed language, developed by the good folks at Jetbrains, that shares many similarities with the likes of Scala and Swift. In a sense, it could be thought of the equivalent of Swift for the Java platform: a more modern, concise and safer language that runs in the JVM, fully interoperable with Java.
If that’s not enough, Kotlin also aims at compiling for other targets beyond the JVM, such as Javascript and native platforms and seeks to support asynchronous programming via coroutines and non blocking I/O.
In the context of using Kotlin with SmartFoxServer nothing would be easier: the integration on both server side and client side is painless and it works out of the box with any SFS2X release.
Let’s take a closer look, shall we? Continue reading
Creating Rooms from server side
In this recipe we will show how to create Rooms from your server side Extension. Continue reading
JavaScript is back!
With the release of SFS2X 2.13 last week we’re happy to reintroduce JavaScript as a server side language. For those familiar with the history of SmartFoxServer, JavaScript has been available since the early days of SFS PRO for writing server side code, and it’s now coming back thanks to the latest improvements in JDK 7 and 8.
SmartFoxServer 2X 2.13 released!
A new SmartFoxServer 2X version is available that focuses mainly on JavaScript for both client and server side.
We’re gladly re-introducing JavaScript as full-fledged server-side language for Extensions, thanks to the improved performance of the Nashorn engine, provided in JDK 8. Continue reading
SmartFoxServer 2X v2.12.4 patch released
SmartFoxServer 2X v2.12.4 is available for download as a patch to be installed on v2.12+.
This release fixes an issue with IPv6 addresses parsing and output to the logs.
You can download the update from here.
The return of JavaScript
As disclosed in our latest newsletter, JavaScript is coming back to SmartFoxServer!
With release 2.13 we’ll launch a new JavaScript client API taking full advantage of the SmartFoxServer 2X binary (and compressed) protocol, providing improved network efficiency. Continue reading