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AJAX Push Comes of Age

ICEface's Is Now Involved With a Large Number of Project Where AJAX Push Is Front and Center On the Requirements List
By Steve Maryka
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May 19, 2008 03:00 PM EDT
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Now if we turn our attention fully to the server-side connection issues related to push we see scalability concerns with multiple open connections at the Servlet level. Each connection requires a dedicated threat to handle it, so thread exhaustion can occur quickly within the application server. Efforts to address the asynchronous communication path within application servers has begun, and will ultimately be standardized under JSR 315. To date we have seen independent solutions emerge for Tomcat 6, Jetty 6, and most recently Glassfish/Grizzly.


All of these application servers support scalable asynchronous communication, and ICEfaces is integrated to work will all of them. Additionally, ICEfaces includes the Asynchronous Http Server, that can be deployed along side any application server and provides scalable handling of the push requests.

Because ICEfaces handles all of the connection related intricacies at the framework level, the developer is free to focus on application development, and to that end, has a straightforward Java API to work with. Without question, ICEfaces is the only solution in the market that provides such a comprehensive feature set and an easy to use programming model. The industry is definitely catching on to the revolutionary value of push, and when enterprises decide they need push, they are flocking to ICEfaces. AJAX Push has definitely come of age in ICEfaces.

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Stephen Maryka is CTO at ICEsoft Technologies Inc., and leads the ICEfaces open source project. He has been involved in Java-based AJAX techniques since 2003 - a time before the term "AJAX" was even coined. Prior to joining ICEsoft, Steve was co-founder of AudeSi Technologies where he served as VP of Technology and led Java product development for Internet appliances. After AudeSi was acquired by Wind River Systems in 2000, he served as a principle technologist there until joining ICEsoft.

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