Both ex-Oracle, Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows have teamed up at a new start-up, Brane Corporation, and both will be speaking on Enterprise Comet at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East, being held 19-21 March 2007 at The Roosevelt Hotel.

Comet is an advanced technique to enable real-time messaging from a Web server to one or more browsers, even if some of those browsers are behind a firewall or proxy server.

In this talk Jonas and John will use Faces, Dojo, Bayeux, Comet, and Grizzly to illustrate how to build server-initiated message driven JavaServer Faces components, and how to leverage these to build next generation Web applications.

"Grizzly enhances the Glassfish project with Comet support via Asynchronous Request Processing (ARP), addressing any server-side scalability concerns with Comet," says Jacobi. 

"Dojo Toolkit provides the client-side JavaScript support for Comet," adds Fallows, "including the Bayeux Protocol, used to coordinate shared access to the Comet notification channel coming from the server."

JavaServer Faces provides the standard component abstraction for Java EE developers to create Comet-enabled Web applications using the same building blocks as traditional Ajax JavaServer Faces components, say Jacobi and Fallows.

Scalable, server-initiated message delivery  via Enterprise Comet is one of dozens of different themes and topics being explored at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 (East).

AJAXWorld 2007 East Conference & Expo Receives
The Largest Number of Sponsor Support for Any Web 2.0 Event in 2007!

SYS-CON Events announced the "charter sponsors" of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East which includes; Laszlo Systems (Diamond Sponsor), JackBe (Platinum Sponsor), Adobe (Platinum Sponsor), Cynergy (Platinum Sponsor), Backbase (Gold Sponsor) Google (Gold Sponsor), Nexaweb (Gold Sponsor), ICEsoft (Gold Sponsor), Oracle (Gold Sponsor), Helmi Technologies (Gold Sponsor), JetBrains (Gold Sponsor), TIBCO (Gold Sponsor), Kapow Technologies (Gold Sponsor), Sun Microsystems (Silver Sponsor), Parasoft (Silver Sponsor), Servoy (Silver Sponsor), Etelos (Silver Sponsor),  Microsoft (Expo Plus Sponsor),  Lightstreamer (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor),  IT Mill (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor), FrogLogic (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor), ThinWire (Expo Sponsor), Quasar Tecnologies (Expo Sponsor), Zapatec (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor), MB Technologies Bindows (Exhibitor), OpenSpot (Exhibitor), ILOG (Exhibitor), Passport Corporation (Exhibitor), Manning Publications (AJAX Book Sponsor), Apress (AJAX Book Sponsor), Conference Guru (Media Sponsor), Flash Goddess (Media Sponsor), AJAXWorld Magazine (Media Sponsor), Web 2.0 Journal (Media Sponsor), SYS-CON.TV (Media Sponsor), IT Mill (Media Sponsor), Methods & Tools (Media Sponsor), Web 2.0 Journal (Media Sponsor), and OASIS (Association Sponsor).

Most AJAXWorld sponsor and exhibitor are also a member of the OpenAjax Alliance. The members of the alliance include:

24SevenOffice, ActiveGrid, ActiveState, Adobe, American Greetings, Aptana, Arimaan Global Consulting, BEA, Curl, Dojo Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, edge IPK, eLink Business Innovations, Finetooth, Global Computer Enterprises, Getahead (DWR), GoETC, Helmi Technologies, HR-XML, IBM, ICEsoft, Ikivo, ILOG, Innoopract, Isomorphic Software, IT MILL, JackBe, Javeline, JSSL, JWAX, Laszlo Systems, Lightstreamer, Mozilla Corporation, NetScript Technologies, Nexaweb, Nitobi, Novell, OpenLink Software, OpenSpot, Openwave Systems, Opera, OpSource, Oracle, OS3.IT, SAP, Scalix, Seagull Software, Sitepen, Software AG, Sun Microsystems, The Frontside, Tealeaf Technology, Tibco, Transmend, Vertex Logic, Visible Measures, Visual WebGui, Volantis Systems, Webtide, XML11, Zend, Zimbra, and Zoho.