When working with multiuser applications, the method of choice in flash is the flash media server (fms). The main alternatives are wowza, a commercial server for streaming media and red5, the opensource alternative.
No matter what server you use, keeping track of the connected users is one of the main things that need to be done correctly. We need to be able to communicate with each and every user from our clientside application via the fms, we need to be able to keep track of them and be able to know what and how something changed about their data. We want to be able to target specific users and send them messages, we want to know which user has sent us a message etc.
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