[Ogoglio-developers] Moving to Comet

[Trevor F. S. <tr...@tr...>]

Heads up!

Ian just committed a major rewhack of our event messaging system which
replaced my crufty old scaffolding service with a hot number based on
Tomcat's new Comet implementation.  The great thing is that now we can
potentially support thousands of simultaneous space client connections
without breaking a sweat and it's all over fast HTTP so even the
strictest of corporate firewalls won't slow it down.

However, nothing is free so this comes at the price of a bit of
additional installation work on servers.  Ian's updated the developer
HOWTO on the wiki so check out the section on Tomcat to see what you
need to do to get "native-tomcat" installed:
http://ogoglio.wiki.sourceforge.net/Ogoglio+Development+Tutorial

- Trevor

p.s. Here's more information on Comet:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/aio.html