Tabuleiro Nebulae MultiUser Server is a server application that runs on Linux, Solaris, MacOSX, Windows and almost any Java-enabled operational system. Nebulae is 100% compatible with the Shockwave MultiUser protocol published by Macromedia, so movies authored for the Shockwave MultiUser Server version 2 and 3 can connect seamlessly to a Nebulae server, without modifications.

Java is emerging as the strongest platform solution for server applications that need to service hundreds or thousands of users at the same time. Nebulae is 100% pure Java 2 code and works with JDK 1.5 or later. Nebulae provides an alternative to Shockwave developers that need to host multiuser movies in Unix systems, while preserving the investment made in learning the Shockwave MultiUser API.

All Shockwave MultiUser Server standard messages and commands can be used transparently with a Nebulae server, including DBObject functions. Nebulae includes a database engine so no database setup is required on the hosting machine, and database files are created and initialized automatically by the server. Nebulae also implement commands not available in the Shockwave MultiUser Server, like the ability to add banned user entries and ip addresses to the database. restart or shutdown the server remotely, send email and interface with standard SQL database engines.

The most important feature not supported by Nebulae in comparison with version 3 of the Shockwave MultiUser Server is server side Lingo scripting, since a Lingo interpreter is not available for other platforms. The server side scripting language used in Nebulae is Java: this is usually a more powerful solution for enterprise-level servers. Please click here for more information about server side scripting in Nebulae.

UDP protocol support is available when Nebulae is used with Director 8.5 or later and Shockwave applications.

We recommend checking the SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS section at the Nebulae page on xtras.tabuleiro.com for updated information on the latest Java virtual machines tested with Nebulae and performance considerations.