On Jan 14, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Steve Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Or is that done more from the client side where a timer pings the server for 
> updates periodically (that sounds inefficient)?

Indeed, horribly inefficient and doesn't scale--but when they mention AJAX, 
that's likely what they mean. Keeping a connection open and letting the server 
push data is a relatively new concept in the WWW world--see WebSockets, part of 
HTML 5. But you only need WebSockets if you're client is in a browser, 
otherwise you're looking for some utility class that wraps a TCP socket and 
provides helpers to assist with the protocol details and hand your data back to 
you.

-- 
Scott Ribe
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