[aerogear-dev] [SimplePush] Sockjs support

Hi, I've been working on adding support for Sockjs to the SimplePush server. There is a project named socksj-netty [1] which is an external project written for Netty 3.x. We are using Netty 4 and there have been quite a few changes between these two versions. I've spent some time already trying to upgrade to Netty 4 but I have not been completely successful. Testing has been hard as there is only an external test suite [2], so it's been a matter of getting the code base to compile and trying to change as little as possible to work with Netty 4. Perhaps due to my lack of understanding the sockjs-protocol I've found this to be somewhat of guess work. There are also parts of the sockjs-protocol that I'm not sure are implemented, like heartbeats. I'm now considering rewriting the sockjs-netty and use the "Netty 4 way". This will take some time which was not planned for. Another option that Matthias brought up was to instead use Vert.x. It was discussed previously what we should base our implementation on and I got the impression that we "should" stick with Netty. I've been very happy with Netty and would like to continue with it, but this might be that I'm more familiar with it compared to Vert.x. So I'd like to hear what people think: 1. Implement Netty Sockjs 2. Switch to Vert.x instead thanks, /Dan [1] https://github.com/cgbystrom/sockjs-netty [2] https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-protocol