[Seaside] [ANN] Swazoo has now WebSocket support

[Carlos Crosetti]

nice contribution

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janko Mivšek" <janko.mivsek at eranova.si>
To: "The Squeak Enterprise Aubergines Server - general discussion." 
<seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:08 PM
Subject: [Seaside] [ANN] Swazoo has now WebSocket support


> Dear Smalltalkers,
>
> Past few days I worked on WebSocket implementation in Swazoo Smalltalk
> web server [1], in coordination with Philippe Marschall from Seaside [4]
> and Nicolas Petton from Iliad [5] devteams, so together with me from
> Aida/Web [3] our cooperation ensures that this implementation is ready
> to be adapted for all three main web frameworks.
>
> Why WebSocket? Because it will replace current Comet hacks to enable a
> bidirectional messaging between browser and web application, specially
> for web app to send something back to the browser without waiting for
> user to click something. Read a bit more about WebSocket here:
>
> http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introducing-web-sockets/
>
> WebSocket as browser supported technology enables opening an always
> present channel, so that web app can send commands like update some
> element of the webpage at any time. That's why WebSocket is ideal for so
> called "real-time" web.
>
> You are invited to look at the code for Squeak/Pharo as Swazoo2.3beta1.1
> at http://www.squeaksource.org/Swazoo.html
>
> A bit more about WebSocket in Swazoo:
>
> http://www.swazoo.org/websocket
>
> Best regards
> Janko
> Swazoo maintainer
>
> [1] Swazoo WebSocket support
>    http://www.swazoo.org/websocket
> [2] Introducing WebSockets
>    http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introducing-web-sockets/
> [3] Aida/Web
>    http://www.aidaweb.si
> [4] Seaside
>    http://www.seaside.st
> [5] Iliad
>    http://www.iliadproject.org
>
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