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Goodbye ShortBus, Hello Cometd

Last week, the project formerly known as ShortBus was renamed Cometd.  Cometd is short for Comet Daemon.

What is Cometd?

Cometd is a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus that uses a push technology pattern known as Comet.  The term 'Comet' was coined by Alex Russell in his post 'Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser'.   The term 'Daemon', as described by Answers.com is a program or process that sits idly in the background until it is invoked to perform its task.

What language is it written in?

There are efforts to create a Comet server in various languages.  Currently there is development underway on a Perl and Python comet server.  Others have expressed interest in writing one in Ruby on Rails, and Php.

How can I keep up to date on development?

Join the Google Groups lists! cometd-dev  cometd-users

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☄ David

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