The WebSocket API is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open a two-way interactive communication session between the user’s browser and a server. With this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without having to poll the server for a reply. Writing a WebSocket server in Java This example shows …
Building a functional chat app based on Node.js (2)
Web Sockets Web Sockets are a much more responsive technology, since they keep a connection directly open at all times for each client. This allows either the client or server to directly notify each other when changes occur on their side. In contrast to the request / response model, the server does not wait for …
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