[aerogear-dev] [SimplePush] Sockjs support

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think we can do both with priority to 1.
> As mentioned in my email about SPS and Vertx your server implementation
> can easily be used as library because you isolated all the netty code into
> a package.
>


That would be my vote as well.

* Get the SockJS "wrapper" up and running
=> that way, I think, we will have fast results, also on the JS side of the
things
* Work on Netty-based SockJS codec
* use our own, once the codec is ready (which COULD :) mean the wrapper was
just a temporary solution

-Matthias


> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Daniel Bevenius <
> daniel.bevenius at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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