XML in Croquet, Xrfb, KAT demo

Gilles, your english is much better than my french!
But I am not certain what your question is.

It sounds like you have already succeeded in one area. I understand  
you to be saying that you have created your own Xrfb server using the  
software at http://atsosxdev.doit.wisc.edu/croquet/Xrfb/, as  
described at https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/arc/croquet-dev/2007-02/ 
msg00051.html
It sounds like you have this working correctly, in that you can use  
View->Remote Desktop Configuration -> Configure... to specify the  
address of your own Xrfb server, and then New->Desktop... to connect  
to it.    This is terrific, as you are probably the first person to  
have done so outside the original authors (Henry Strickland and Ryan  
Seto) or the team in Wisconsin that commissioned the work.  
Congratulations!

[By the way, "Strick" also wrote a game in the older Jasmine version  
of pre-Croquet.  See http://opencroquet.org/index.php/ 
Current_Projects#A_Croquet_Game_Called_Q]

You also say that you have questions about Xml, but I don't know what  
the question is:

Xrfb isn't very related to XML. ("RFB" stands for Remote Frame  
Buffer, which is another name for "VNC", or Virtual Network  
Computing.  These terms are not peculiar to Croquet.  "Xrfb" stands  
for eXperimental RFB. The difference between Xrfb and normal RFB is  
that Xrfb has an initial step in which the originating client sends  
an HTTP message to the server to initiate a new shared session for a  
particular resource. This HTTP message doesn't use XML or SOAP or  
anything like that.)

Part of your question (or questions?) appears to be about how worlds  
are created and how people can enter them. (And one of the mechanisms  
for this does use XML!  But that's only incidental.) This is indeed  
confusing.  Croquet developer's have created a whole bunch of  
slightly different styles and mechanisms for both discovery and the  
bootstrapping of worlds. There is no one "true" mechanism that has  
emerged as dominant, and the different demos do different things.  
Discovery and boostrapping are different, different combinations of  
styles might not work together, and the different mechanisms might  
not work when used within extensions to the different demos.  I've  
written up my understanding of the concepts at:
   <a href="http://croquetconsortium.org/index.php/WAN/LAN%">http://croquetconsortium.org/index.php/WAN/LAN% 
2C_Connecting_and_Discovery
and
   http://croquetconsortium.org/index.php/Populating_Worlds

The XML postcard and the KnownWorlds directory are works in progress  
at Minnesota. I can put them into context (at the above links), but  
detailed questions will require one of the developers.

-H

On Mar 4, 2007, at 3:45 AM, LeMyriapode wrote:

Hi ,

I forgot to say thank you !
I'm thinking about your post ....

I've published my small experience with "Xrfb" on my Blog
http://blogforcroquetproject.blogspot.com/

Where is the "list" of the French/French-speaking persons using/developing the
fantastic Croquet project ! Please ...

Regards