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A Java Client for a WebSockets API 1. Introduction HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is a stateless request-response protocol. Its simple design makes it very scalable but unsuitable and inefficient for highly interactive real-time web applications because of the amount of overhead that needs to be transmitted along with every request/response.… Continue Reading websockets-api-java-spring-client

Intro to Security and WebSockets 1. Introduction In a previous article, we showed how to add WebSockets to a Spring MVC project. Here, we’ll describe how to add security to Spring WebSockets in Spring MVC. Before continuing, make sure you already have basic Spring MVC Security coverage in place –… Continue Reading spring-security-websockets

Spring WebSockets: Build an User Chat 1. Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll describe how to use Spring WebSockets to send STOMP messages to a single user. That’s important because we sometimes don’t want to broadcast every message to every user. Besides that, we’ll demonstrate how to send these messages in a… Continue Reading spring-websockets-send-message-to-user

Intro to WebSockets with Spring 1. Overview In this article, we’ll create a simple web application that implements messaging using the new WebSocket capabilities introduced with Spring Framework 4.0. WebSockets is a bi-directional, full-duplex, persistent connection between a web browser and a server. Once a WebSocket connection is established the… Continue Reading websockets-spring

WebSockets with AsyncHttpClient 1. Introduction AsyncHttpClient (AHC) is a library, based on Netty, created to easily execute asynchronous HTTP calls and communicate over the WebSocket protocol. In this quick tutorial, we’ll see how we can start a WebSocket connection, send data and handle various control frames. 2. Setup The latest… Continue Reading async-http-client-websockets