We have had customers deploy applications using this feature. In these cases they used some pretty serious hardware and planned to never have more than 40 or 50 users online concurrently. The feature does work ok in production; the problem is that it scales horrendously.
If you aren't stuck with port 80, then an alternative is to use the Flash XML Socket (which actually also supports plain text transmission.) This isn't officially supported within Laszlo right now, but it's likely to be in a future release. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=00001089.html#wp71517 A On Apr 24, Raju Bitter wrote: > I have the same question. How "bad" is this feature :-) > > Did anyone try to use it successfully in production environment. > > Best, > Raju > > ________________________________ > > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Fernando Germano > Gesendet: Sonntag, 23. April 2006 05:00 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [Laszlo-dev] Persistent Connections > > > Hi, > > I need to develop a chat-like app, imagine this will be basically a peer to > peer chat, but with many of this open, kind of an Instant Messaging app > (like MS Messanger), and I found this while reading the documentation about > Connections. > > ============================================= > This feature is provisional. It works in limited capacity situations and is > fine to develop with, but we do not recommend deployment (with the possible > exception of low-capacity, non-mission critical deployment) with this > feature. Please consult Laszlo Systems directly if you have questions about > the robustness of an application that uses this version of the persistent > connnection. > ============================================= > > So I ask, what's the robustness of this solution?, I'll be developing my own > authenticator and I found very interesting the "agents" feature, and most > probably I'll use it. > > > Best Regards, > Fernando > > _______________________________________________ > Laszlo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev > _______________________________________________ Laszlo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev
