Comet: Sub-Second Latency with 10K+ Concurrent Users

Topics

Java,

Languages,

Performance & Scalability,

Jetty,

Rich Internet Apps,

Programming,

Dojo,

Lightstreamer,

Comet

Comet - technology that allows a sever to send over HTTP a message to the client when an event occurs, without the client having to explicitly request it - has been considered by some to scale poorly in the past. Recent tests using Cometd and Jetty as well as Lightstreamer production implementations prove the opposite.

•  By  Alexander Olaru on Jan 29, 2008,
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