Ajax Push - what to consider?

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I'm looking into "Comet", "Ajax Push" or "Reverse Ajax" and have found APE: http://www.ape-project.org. It seems very promising. Any one with experience with this? Any pros and cons I should know about?

Also, are there any other engines I should be considering?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '11 at 03:00

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This is an incomplete answer, but APE has very little documentation for 1. See this page http://www.nulldevice.de/2010/09/ape-ajax-push-engine/

answered Jun 24 '11 at 03:00

Charles L.

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '11 at 14:21

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Sounds like you want to be using WebSockets or Comet.

If you want to self-host there are the following options:

http://faye.jcoglan.com/
http://socket.io/
Jetty: http://blogs.webtide.com/gregw/entry/jetty_websocket_server
http://code.google.com/p/pywebsocket/
Ruby EventMachine WebSocket server: https://github.com/igrigorik/em-websocket
Meteor: http://meteorserver.org/
GlassFish: http://glassfish.java.net/
ErlyComet: http://code.google.com/p/erlycomet/
cometD: http://cometdproject.dojotoolkit.org/

If you don't want to host the real-time infrastructure then you could use a hosted service such as Pusher who I work for.

answered Jun 25 '11 at 14:21

leggetter

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your service looks interesting. Will be looking into it. Any comments about APE? – StackOverflowNewbie Jun 25 '11 at 22:24
@StackOverflowNewbie - I've not had a chance to play with the APE technology. I do like the Gorillas at the top of the website though :) One good thing from a quick skim of their docs is that they do have a [WebSocket transport](http://www.ape-project.org/wiki/index.php/Tutorial:Use_different_transport_method_%28JSONP,_XHRStreaming%29#WebSocket) option which means that the most efficient transport mechanism is supported. Sorry I can't provide you with more specific help with that part of your question. – leggetter Jun 26 '11 at 09:44

Ajax Push - what to consider?

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