ZDNet Korea has a very good overview article on WebSockets and Kaazing. It provides a comparison of the HTTP-based communication and WebSockets, gives real life examples, and covers the client technologies that Kaazing provides. And it’s all in Korean.
Author, instructor, ultra-marathon runner Peter Lubbers gives a talk at the San Francisco HTML5 User Group he founded, discussing the latest news in the exciting HTML5 feature area of Real-Time and Connectivity.
There is a lot of new stuff to talk about when it comes to the related HTML5 APIs and protocols. For example, the official RFC (RFC 6455) for the WebSocket protocol was recently published and it has changed significantly since its earlier protocol drafts.
Join SFHTML5′s own Peter Lubbers as he takes an in-depth look at WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, XMLHTTPRequest Level 2, Cross Document Messaging, and related standards like CORS and SPDY. These HTML5 features will allow you to easily build kick-ass web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness. Pay attention and you might even win a signed copy of Peter’s latest edition of Pro HTML5 Programming.
Tavant Technologies partners with Kaazing to deliver real time Web applications.
Tavant Technologies, a leading provider of specialized IT solutions and services, and Kaazing, leading provider of technology for the living Web, today announced that the two companies have established a technology partnership. The partnership with Kaazing will enable Tavant to offer the most secure, real-time web communications platform to deliver a wider breadth of enterprise applications to its customers.
You can read the full press release: Tavant Technologies Partners with Kaazing to Deliver Real-Time Web Applications - Kaazing’s WebSocket Platform Accelerates Time to Market for Social, Mobile and Cloud Initiatives
Under Collaterals on the Kaazing site there are several great white papers that are worth a look. The one I’d call out today is the Security white paper.
There’s a lot of fud out there around WebSocket security that can only be tackled by learning about those concerns and how they can be addressed. Here are a few snippets from our Delivering Security Over Native Full-duplex Web Connections paper with this very objective in mind:
Security within the WebSocket standard is simple and certain, as long as the WebSocket solution you use implements it, since it’s not enabled by default. The WebSocket standard takes care of core security by providing for unencrypted and encrypted transport, and by defining WebSocket as a frame within which all existing security protocols can operate. However, because WebSocket is a standard and not a development environment, the inherent security features are somewhat limited.
Often, security features have been limited at a high cost – one that obstructs the creation of robust, full duplex web applications. Developers are often faced with the difficult design and coding challenges, trying to figure out how to work within or around limitations without frustrating their users with awkward and time consuming processes.
The WebSocket standard is sufficient to secure traffic (if its security features are used). It supports whatever security is in place. But securing the flow is only part of the real security challenges you face. That traffic has to be able to seamlessly traverse proxies and firewalls. Issues of authentication delay and obstruct the web experience.
It only takes a few minutes to download, install, start up, and try out the Kaazing WebSocket Gateway. The first in our Kaazing Quick Start series is the Kaazing WebSocket Gateway – JMS Edition Quick Start.
If you’re in a couch potato mood today, just lean back and let me walk you through our quick start guide. You’ll see messages sent back and forth between browsers (a’la chat), messages bundled up into JMS transactions, and a streaming stock demo. All in less than 6 minutes (including download, install, and start-up). Ready for the ride?
The Kaazing Stock Portfolio Demo showcases really well the incredibly low latency WebSockets offer. Check out this quick 2 minute screencast featuring two browsers (Chrome and Safari), demonstrating the real time experience you can achieve: trades performed in one browser show up immediately in the other browser as well.
Hot off the press:
ITOCHU Technology and Kaazing, leading provider of technology for the living web, today announced that the two companies have entered into a partnership. By working with Kaazing, ITOCHU Technology can now offer its customers in Japan and the United States the most secure, real-time web communications platform for new enterprise applications.
Being the first to offer Kaazing’s solutions to the Japanese market allows us to continue to build on the leadership we have built over decades by introducing some of the most important, market changing technologies to Japan,
said Shinichi Uemura, President and CEO, ITOCHU Technology – which introduced Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Oracle and Siebel Systems to Japan.
