Websockets: wait or implement now?

[Norman Maurer]

Did you also checkout hazelcast ? It also support clustered
notification systems etc:

http://www.hazelcast.com/documentation.jsp#Events

Bye,
Norman

2011/7/1 Jeff G. <jeff at steelhouse.com>:
> I'm building a cluster system using netty for part of the networking, as well
> as a client library for the cluster system (it's a storage cluster), and I
> want to build in a mechanism to push notifications to clients if the cluster
> topology changes.  I initially tried using ActiveMQ to do a pub/sub
> mechanism, but I've run up against a wall where clients in different
> networks can't subscribe to the topic (ActiveMQ is redirecting the clients
> to the private IP of the server it's on instead of allowing them to connect
> via the public IP, so connections are failing), so I'm thinking I'm not
> going to waste any more time on the message queue (I've already wasted about
> 3 weeks trying to make it work and have not had much success).
>
> Since websockets is still a draft, should I wait for that to finalize and
> netty's support to be more complete, or it is safe to implement websockets
> in the client and the server right now (this is a production system that is
> also going to be licensed to third parties)?  Keep in mind that clients of
> this system will not be running in browsers, so I have to be able to have
> the cluster's client library be able to speak websocket if I do it this way.
> My only other viable option is long polling, but I'd rather not have the
> client lib create any more threads (the servers it runs inside already
> create pretty much every thread in the known universe when they start up, so
> my code gets close to starvation on initialization).  Alternatively, if
> there's an idea I haven't though of yet, I'm open to suggestions.
>
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