title: Best stack options for Video Chat server using GAE/Java and Flash
body: <p>We want to build a high performance web based Chat server using Flash on client side and Java on the server side on Google App Engine.</p>
  
  <p>We want to ignore other options like Silverlight, HTML5 for now.</p>
  
  <p>Client side:
  So on the client side we have Flash. We probably write some action script code to start using the web cam and posting it to a web server. Please correct me if i am wrong.</p>
  
  <p>The Server side:
  OPTIONS:
  1) Adobe Flash Media Server - i cant figure out what this is and whether this can be integrated with Java code on GAE?</p>
  
  <p>2) Wowza for Google AppEngine
  Seems like a dead end.. <a href="http://www.wowzamedia.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5009" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.wowzamedia.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5009</a></p>
  
  <p>3) Wowza for amazon - If we can Integrate this with GAE App that would be cool.</p>
  
  <p>4) Red5 - Any commercial hosting that is reliable?</p>
  
  <p>Any pointers, case studies, advice will be really helpful.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks a lot.</p>