Musings & News

David Davis, co-creator of the Cometd project, read through Michael Carter’s recent post on Sockets in the Browser points out that Sprocket.Socket also supports sockets in the browser.

There are two really interesting blogs recently that demonstrate Comet and its increasing adoption.

I will be giving a talk this Saturday titled “Impact of the Reverse AJAX (Comet), TCP Connection and HTML5 to the architecture of the Web” at the iPhone BarCamp this Saturday in Palo Alto, CA.

The Orbited blog recently provided information about improvements coming to Orbited 0.5. They’re skipping a 0.4 release, going straight from 0.3 to 0.5.

If you’re looking to get started with a Comet server implementation, check out some of the following quick start guides for the Comet implementations created by contributors to Comet Daily.

Bob Remeika has announced the start of a project to create a pure JavaScript Comet server.

InfoQ is running an interview with Comet Daily’s Jean-Francois Arcand about Grizzly and bringing Comet to the masses with Atmosphere, a new POJO-based Comet framework.

In a follow-up to Michael Carter’s post a few months ago and a recent discussion with Greg Wilkins, I’d like to kick-off a a call for Comet case studies.

Bindows has recently added Comet support through BindowsFaces, a Bindows + JSF implementation, and GlassFish.

In recent weeks, there has been an ongoing battle at wikipedia over the definition and details of the Comet page, with the end result being that a 6000 word page on the history, techniques and implementations of Comet, has been cut down to three sentences that barely define what Comet is.