Push-style communication (think news tickers and chat windows) is as prevalent on the web now as ever.
Early approaches, implemented by repurposing some unrelated capabilities of the browser and server (read this if that’s too vague), have given way to the WebSocket and Server-Sent Events standards.
These technologies have gained a lot of ground lately–they’re now supported by most browsers–so any relevant, standards-supporting development platform had ought to have something to say about them.
Enter Coldfusion 10, which we surveyed
in our last article, and whose support for these new approaches to push communication is what we’ll spend the rest of this series exploring.
Here’s the plan:
Part 2 [WebSocket]
- Background
- How to do it ‘by hand’
- How to do it with Coldfusion 10
- Example application
Part 3 [Server-Sent Events]
- Background
- How to do it ‘by hand’
- How to do it with Coldfusion 10
- Example application
