Introduction to WebSockets

Speakers: Chris Beams, Gunnar Hillert, Rossen Stoyanchev The WebSockets technology promises to fill a niche in web applications by enabling browsers and servers to exchange messages with high frequency, low latency and low bandwith requirements in full duplex mode. The WebSocket protocol is an IETF standard, the WebSocket API is almost standardized by the W3C, and the JSR-356 will deliver a Java API in Java EE 7. There are already implementations in and in a number of Servlet containers and Java fra