The Atmosphere Framework contains client and server side components. The majority of popular frameworks are either supporting Atmosphere or supported natively by the framework. The Atmosphere Framework supports all majors Browsers and Servers
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Atmosphere supports WebSockets, Server Side Events (SSE), Long-Polling, HTTP Streaming (Forever frame) and JSONP.
Our Wiki contains several tutorials for getting started. You can also browse the framework's Javadoc
<dependency>
<groupId>org.atmosphere</groupId>
<artifactId>atmosphere-{atmosphere-module}</artifactId>
<version>0.9.1</version>
</dependency>
Where atmosphere-module can be: jersey, runtime (main module), guice, jquery, redis, hazelcast, jms, jgroups or gwt. Our official release are available from Maven Central download. Atmosphere supports the majority of Servers and Browsers
IMPORTANT: Migrating 0.x to the new 0.9 API
Take a look at the PubSub Client-Server or the infamous Chat Client-Server to realize how simple Atmosphere is!
Writing a REST over WebSocket/Comet apps using JQuery
Which Atmosphere API should I use for my project?
Comet/WebSocket? Introducing the Atmosphere framework
Latest Presentation - Writing highly scalable WebSocket using the Atmosphere Framework
To quickly see what Atmosphere can do with WebSocket and Comet, and If you want to play with Redis, Hazelcast, ActiveMQ(JMS) or XMPP(Gmail), download the JQueryPubSub sample, uncomments the appropriate technology in the pom.xml, re-war the file or manually drop the atmosphere-{technology-name}.jar under your WEB-INF/lib to enabled it automatically
For SNAPSHOT, you'll have to add the Sonatype repo to your settings in order to be able to access the snapshot builds Browse the artifact
Several Samples are available Download the sample, rename the file without the maven version
Atmosphere 0.9 is our official release, and our work in progress version is 1.0, targeted for end of End of May 2012
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