[Triplea-develop] lobby server

[Sean B. <sbr...@ya...>]

Hey,

The lobby server is mostly done, thanks to Harry M for
doing the initial draft.  

If you get the latest code from cvs, add lib/derby.jar
to your path, and run 

games.strategy.engine.lobby.server.LobbyServer

a server will start.  

The server has an admin console, with some basic
stats, a display of the hosted games and the chat, and
a sql window (you need to move the dividers before you
see the sql window, then highlight the sql and press
execute).

When you run GameRunner, there is a new button thay
says "connect to lobby server".  Press that, and the
game looks up the location of the lobby server by
reading,

http://triplea.sourceforge.net/lobby/server.properties

The url can be changed by setting the system property,
triplea.lobby.serverURL

The lobby server lets you chat, host games and join
games in progress.  When you host/join a game a new
TripleA instance is spawned.

I think the server is mostly done, but I need to test
it, polish some things, and figure out the best way of
hosting it.  Initially I will host it at home until
the bugs are worked out, but eventually a more
reliable location would be needed.

It will probably be fall before a new unstable version
is up and a test server is deployed, but people can
get the latest cvs and play with it.

Sean

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