This project has been under development for almost two years now (and been on ice proably 80% of that time). But since Artur introduced the Server push mechanism, I decided to add this nice feature to the client, since it has been one of the most awaited features for a long time. This is not a widget, but an application. tkIRC is deployable to a webserver container directly OR may be started up as a stand alone application. - Starting tkIRC as a stand alone application cannot be easier - just unzip the package and run the start.bat or start.sh file provided within. But before that, you may wish to edit the conf.properties file found in the same directory. - Deploying to a web server requires a little more editing: 1) Unzip the file 2) Go to the tkIRC-folder and rename toolkIRC.war to toolkIRC.war.zip 3) Now, edit the conf.properties to fit your needs, and then copy it to the \WEB-INF\classes\ folder within the zip-file (overwrite the old one) 4) Rename toolkIRC.war.zip back to toolkIRC.war 5) now you can add the war-file to a web server, and there you go! (Alternatively you can edit conf.properties in the webcontainer directly (requires Tomcat restart)) tkIRC includes a lot, but here are a few features: - Portlet support - Multiple DCC send (send a file to several people in a channel, for instance. Sending a file to many people at the same intranet may not work, though). - Multiple DCC receive (you may download many files at the same time) - Most of the irc commands may be issued (join,quit,topic,invite,mode,op, etc...) - Channel chat history (arrow up / down for history) - Nick name completion (press tab to cycle around all users, like in irssi) - Private chat - Shortcut for Colors, boldfaces, underline Ctrl + c, Ctrl + b and Ctrl + u. (though, there may be some problems with underlining) - Links - Smileys - Dynamic resizing to fit all sizes of screens - etc... REMEMBER TO ADD A SLASH (/) AT THE END OF THE URL