In this tutorial I walk through the basics of Peer to Peer communication using Flash Professional within the context of a real-time chat app. This technology can easily be extended for more robust collaboration projects such as real-time community white boards, social gaming or real-time online support. The source files can be downloaded here.

For more information I encourage you to check out Tom Krcha’s blog FlashRealtime.com where he makes a similar app using Flash Builder. Also, for a commercial-grade solution, check out LiveCycle Collaboration Service that has many key capabilities, including:

• Easily integrate text chat, whiteboard, webcam, and VoIP functionality.
• Rapidly build and deploy applications with the complete SDK.
• Manage user and session data.
• Build your applications in the best-of-breed mix of onsite and cloud environments