The many shades of Bayeux/Cometd
by Greg WilkinsMay 15th, 2008Cometd Bayeux is a publish/subscribe messaging system, and this has drawn some criticism that PubSub is not the most flexible paradigm for an Ajax/Comet transport
Cometd Bayeux is a publish/subscribe messaging system, and this has drawn some criticism that PubSub is not the most flexible paradigm for an Ajax/Comet transport

Comet Gazing is a semi-regular feature on Comet Daily. This time, we’ve asked our contributors the question: “In your experience with Comet development, what solution to a problem are you most proud of, and how did you accomplish it?”
HTTP Channels is a transport protocol based on the existing messaging capabilities of HTTP and utilizes the concepts of REST for notification of resource changes.
The latest release of the Persevere Server (0.9.5) now includes Comet support. The Persevere Server is a web accessible database and service side JavaScript server that exposes persistent data storage as RESTful HTTP/JSON web services.
There is a lot of confusion about guaranteed messaging. Many products claim some level of guaranteed or reliable messaging, but what does it really mean?
With the increasing interest in Comet and the recent Super Mario Brothers implementation and the Embedding and Encoding JavaScript analysis, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at games based on Comet techniques.
As I write this, we’re waiting for the results of London’s Mayoral election. The position of Mayor has only been around since 2000, and this year a too-close-to-call contest between two of the most colourful politicians in the country has kept the race on the front pages of the papers for weeks.

Comet Gazing is a semi-regular feature on Comet Daily. We pose a question to our Contributors and post the answers. This time, we’ve asked our contributors the question: “What do you find most frustrating about Comet development, and how do you workaround or deal with the issue?”
After publishing the article “Hello World” with Lightstreamer, I received many requests to release a version of that tutorial for .NET developers. Therefore, in this installment we will work on a .NET port of the Java Data Adapter that we illustrated in the previous article. In particular, both a C# version and a Visual Basic version will be shown.
Pub/sub is a popular architecture for Comet development. Simple applications may only need to deal with a single pub/sub broker, but more complex applications may involve multiple pub/sub brokers. Path prefixing and URL topics provide two means for integrating multiple pub/sub brokers.
High Scalability is featuring a detailed analysis describing how the New Facebook Chat Feature Scales to 70 Million Users Using Erlang.
Read moreIn addition to some of our earlier coverage on .Net and Comet, it looks like there may be some Comet-like things happening in the .Net/Silverlight world based on Eugene Osovetsky's recent article, Pushing Data to a Silverlight Application.
Read moreTo follow-up on Dylan's post about Comet games in more detail, the folks at chess.com have launched live.chess.com running on the Jetty implementation of Cometd.
Read moreComet is rocking JavaOne 2008!
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