Re: Websockets on the IBMi

["Maurice O'Prey" <maurice.oprey@xxxxxxxxx>]

A balanced reply Henrik

A question to the group. Other than a chat server what type of applications would you envisage being implemented on the IBMi?

On 12 Jul 2012, at 14:54, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Interesting discussion on websockets,
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> but in a “normal” RPGLE environment I can’t see that it is very useful
> without adding some kind of java based session handler to distribute data
> to connected clients storing each connection in a tread in a multithreaded
> environment.
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> If a client connects to a RPGLE program in a one to one “persistence”
> environment why not just use AJAX long polling and hanging up the RPGLE
> program that supports the client on a data queue waiting for new data to be
> pushed while letting other stateless RPGLE CGI programs handles other
> client requests?
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> Websockets is to me today more a specific component requirement (such as a
> chat, messaging or dashboard component) than a basic client/server
> transport layer where the client typically initiates the interaction and
> the server respond.
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> IMHO java would be the natural choice for handling typical websockets tasks
> because of its multithread and OO capability.
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