Ikenna, On 1/6/16 12:42 PM, Ikenna Darlington wrote: > 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.
You didn't read the whole reply. Mark replied using the usual convention on this list, which is to reply inline or at the bottom of the message, rather than top-posting[1]. -chris [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html#tomcat-users > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
