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Peer to Peer (P2P) applications have been around for quite some time now. Adobe Stratus, a recently released service from Adobe in combination with Flash Player 10 provides developers all there is needed to create P2P applications today. In this article, we will cover the following

More and more the idea of having a social experience has become part of what makes the internet a unique experience compared to other mediums. Over time sites have added the ability to share, comment and evaluate information. To deliver things like chat, file sharing or a multi-user game can require a fair amount of work on both the client side and the server side. The Adobe Flash Collaboration Service gives developers a way to create their own multi-user experience, without the need to manage and maintain servers and work with tools that Flex developer are all ready used to using.

AFCS (Adobe Flash Collaboration Service) previously known as 'Cocomo' is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that that allows Flex developers to address a class of applications known as collaborative applications.

Collaborative Applications have progressed from a nice cool thing into serious applications. Almost all of us would have participated in an online chat or a web meeting, which allows a group of users to chat, share files, do screen sharing, take polls, ask questions and receive answers, etc. AFCS aims to lower the barrier to entry for developers to bring such collaborative features into their applications.