On 2006.03.26, Hamilton Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read a recent article about something that could be the next buzz > word after Ajax and Mashups. > > http://www.irishdev.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=2166 > > What I would like to find out more about what the article is talking > about "event driven IO" in the context of AOLServer. > > Does anyone know of a module in aolserver that supports this or are > there currently plans to build this "abstraction".
Just as the article points out that AJAX is not new (asynchronous HTTP has been available for, I'm guessing, almost 10 years now, using IFRAME's and other techniques), it is simply giving a new (hopefully catchy) name for another old technique. What the article is calling "Comet" (which isn't even an acronym, shame on them! :-) ) has long been known as "server push" -- also something the Netscape guys thought might be a good idea -- where the HTTP connection is persistent and the server continues to push data down to the client as events on the server require. This technique has been used recently for things like pub-sub over HTTP. I bet the KnowNow guys could speak to specific capabilities and issues that AOLserver has in this area. Perhaps if they're not too busy (and still reading this mailing list), they'll share some stories with us. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
