Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Comet Atmosphere 0.1-ALPHA1 Released
« GlassFish Portfolio - ICEfaces PodCast | Main | Ajax Push - ZK versus ICEfaces »Atmosphere 0.1-ALPHA1 has just been released, providing a portable (Tomcat, Jetty, Grizzly and GlassFish) API for developing comet (aka Ajax Push) applications. Take a look at the introductory material to get started.
Two things are of particular interest with Atmosphere: portability, and simplicity. Until Servlet 3.0 is available, there is no portable way to write scalable push applications, but atmosphere provides a common API for obtaining asynchronous request processing features on the various servers. Also, using Atmosphere is much simpler than understanding the various ARP APIs. For instance, Atmosphere allows you to declare a @Broadcaster via an annotation and then use the Broadcaster to publish and subscribe to the suspended responses of the multiple users within your application .
Posted by at 6:23 PM in Entries by Ted Goddard