[lopica-announce] jIRCii Launch Service - connect your IRC channel to your website with webstart

[Raphael M. <ra...@hi...>]

Hello,
Just released a new beta of the Java IRC Client jIRCii
http://jirc.hick.org/

I've added a feature I call the jIRCii Launch Service.  The purpose behind
the jIRCii launch service is to make it easy to link to an irc channel
from a website with minimal muss and fuss.

http://jirc.hick.org/cgi-bin/launch.jnlp?irc://irc.freenode.net/jircii

The above URL will launch jIRCii to connect to irc.freenode.net and join
#jircii.  Someone wanting to put a front end javascript form onto such a
url could even let the user specify a nickname:

http://jirc.hick.org/cgi-bin/launch.jnlp?irc://ni...@ir.../channel

Regardless once that link is activated jIRCii will launch and with 0
configuration from the user, it will connect to the specified irc server
and join the specified channel.

Sure beats adding an ugly applet to a website.  Go webstart!

				-- Raffi

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Raphael Mudge wrote:

> Hi there,
> I put out a 'stable' release of my Java IRC Client jIRCii today.  Feel
> free to check it out.  Source code and other fun stuff can be found on the
> homepage at http://jirc.hick.org/
>
> 					-- Raffi
>
> jIRCii is a powerful cross platform Internet Relay Chat client. It is
> fully scriptable using a Perl-like language called sleep. The focus is to
> provide a console client experience with the advantages of a solid GUI. It
> includes DCC/CTCP support, the ability to connect to SSL servers, and over
> 65 built-in commands.
>
> WWW: http://jirc.hick.org/
> JNLP: http://jirc.hick.org/jircii/jIRCii.jnlp
>