Hello, I am sorry about that. Felt that I needed to post to both the users and dev lists, Since it concerned both. I have noted that. Thank you.
On 01/06/2016 06:39 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 06/01/2016 17:11, Ikenna Darlington wrote: >> Hello Devs, > Cross-posting questions to the users and dev lists is frowned upon in > this community. If you are ever unsure where to post, post to the users > list and you will be redirected if necessary. > >> My team currently uses tomcat8 to serve our Scala application developed >> using lift. Our application uses comet to send real time data from the >> server to the client. >> >> Unfortunately we noticed that in the new release of tomcat - tomcat9, >> comet is no longer supported because >> >> >> * >> >> Web Sockets is already far more popular (based on question volume on the >> users list) >> >> * >> >> Comet support adds a fair amount of complexity to the connector code >> >> Though, web sockets might be more popular, but there are frameworks that >> rely solely on comet for real time features. Some frameworks like lift >> don't support web sockets and most lift developers serve their >> applications through tomcat. >> >> We would appreciate if support for comet is restored in the next release. > Are you sure Lift is using Tomcat's Comet implementation rather than > it's own? Comet was always very proprietary. A quick search of the Lift > Github repo doesn't identify any Tomcat specific classes and the docs > suggest it runs in any Java EE servlet container. That indicates to me > that Lift is not using Tomcat's Comet implementation. > > The quickest test is probably to download 9.0.0.M1 and see if a simple > test app works. I know next to nothing about Lift or I'd do that myself. > > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
