Spring Framework 4.0 M2: WebSocket Messaging Architectures
As I wrote previously, a WebSocket API is only the starting point for WebSocket-style messaging applications. Many practical challenges remain. As one Tomcat mailing list user mused recently:
it does seem to me that websockets is still not really "production-ready", (I am not talking about the Tomcat implementation per se, but more generally) ... native websockets capability in IE is only available since IE-10 and that solutions which allow this to work in lower IE versions are a bit "iffy" (relying on a diversion through Adobe's FlashPlayer e.g.). (Most of our customers are largish corporations, which are not going to update their browsers, nor open special ports in their firewalls, just to please us).
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