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About creating multiuser applications

The Shockwave Multiuser Server and Xtra let two or more users exchange information over the Internet or smaller networks. Director users rely on multiuser functionality for a wide variety of purposes, including the following:

| Creating a chat movie that allows real-time conversation
| Adding human interaction between an e-commerce site and its customers for technical support and customer service
| Conducting an online meeting with a shared "whiteboard" that each participant can write on
| Running a multiplayer interactive game

Director includes the Multiuser Xtra and a 50-user version of the server application as part of the default installation. You can modify the Multiuser.cfg file to enable 1000 users to connect to the server. For more information, seeEnabling 1000 connections to the Multiuser Server.

The Library palette contains multiuser behaviors that add commonly used multiuser functionality to a movie, such as connecting to the Multiuser Server.