jWebSocket + Tomcat

[Nelson Silva]

Hi all,

I'm studying the integration of WAIB in other projects but Websocket 
support really limits the choice of application servers.

I'd like to be able to deploy WAIB in Tomcat but since it doesn't have 
websocket support it's not an easy task. The idea would be to use the 
GuiceServletContextListener to install all the WAIB modules and remove 
explicit org.eclipse.jetty.x dependencies. We could have a web.xml to 
package WAIB as a WAR and still keep ServerMain to launch an embedded 
Jetty server.

Have you considered adopting jWebSocket (http://jwebsocket.org/) ? It 
provides you an open source websocket implementation that works with 
Jetty and Tomcat while using the native websocket engine where available 
(Jetty >= 7)

Tomcat seems to have wider adoption, for instance Eclipse Virgo uses 
Tomcat as web server and it would be great to be able to create an OSGi 
bundle from WAIB.

Regards,

    Nelson