How to Build WebSocket Web Applications
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · November 27 - 30, 2012
About this Presentation
The WebSocket protocol is now a standard internet protocol (RFC 6455), and almost all browsers supports it well. Differently from HTTP, WebSocket supports true bidirectional communication, enabling developers to build more scalable web applications.
In this session we will look at the details of the WebSocket protocol, of the WebSocket APIs offered by clients and servers of the WebSocket pros and cons, finishing with a demo showing how to build a WebSocket web application.

Senior Engineer @ Intalio/Webtide
Simone Bordet is a Jetty Committer, CometD project leader and works as Lead Architect at Webtide, now part of Intalio. Active open source developer, he founded and contributed to various open source projects such as Jetty, CometD, MX4J, Foxtrot, LiveTribe, and others. Simone has been technical speaker at various national and international conferences such as Devoxx, JavaOne, CodeMotion, etc., and is a co-lead of the Java User Group of Torino, Italy. Simone specializes in server-side multi-thread development, J2EE application development, in Comet technologies applied to web development, web network protocols and in high performance JVM tuning.