Hello Laszlo Users! Need help on alternative approaches to persistent connections!
I am creating a tool that require every laszlo app instance to send events to each other much like a chat room. Naturally I gravitated to persistent connections, but I read everywhere that they are not fully supported in all browsers, and some browsers will behave differently. Since I want this laszlo application to run in all major browsers I think I better stay away from persistent connections. With that said, is there another "Tried and True" solution to this using the latest OL (4.0.7)? The alternative I was thinking of would be to use web services calls on the *back-end* server to send messages and then have each laszlo app instance poll the server for the latest messages. The problem I see with this is that polling the server unnecessarily will bog down the server and the polling isn't really real time...meaning laszlo app instances will incur some lag. Does anyone else have a solution that they used that has found to perform well when needing to send messages in real time to all laszlo app instances? Also, is the solution scalable for multiple "chatrooms" (so to speak)? Thanks very much, Anthony Bargnesi
