Musings & News

Last week we released updated versions of all the Lightstreamer components (which include the server and the client libraries).

Joseph McCarthy from IBM Ireland has written a tutorial, “Using Comet for asynchronous user notification of autonomous server thread progression”, about how to use polling and Comet (long-polling) in Java.

Jetty’s async IO architecture is ideally suited to providing a very scalable implementation of WebSocket that is well integrated with standard server-side java application environments.

cometD 1.0 was recently released with a great set of features, and includes Comet clients for Dojo and jQuery.

Weeyla has released version 1.0 of APE (Ajax Push Engine), an open-source Comet server.

Mibbit recently conducted some WebSocket performance tests with promising results.

WebSocket continues to gain momentum with support in development builds of Chrome and Jetty.

WebSync is a new Comet implementation for IIS.

A two-part article on streaming based on the approaches taken at Caplin.

Diesel and Tornado are a pair of new Python-based, open-source Comet servers.