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Preferred technology/framework to stream textual data to the browser?

we have some administrational webapp for a live chat system, and need to monitor the chat messages in realtime, amongst other events.

the events are stored in a mysql database.

what would be the best technology to handle a lot of frequent (near-realtime - every second) updates to the browser?

e.g. is there a way to use flex to stream textual data without LiveCycle Data Services (because it seems rather expensive and overpowered for this limited use case) - what about BlazeDS?

(note: see my other question https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/24327993/Frequent-AJAX-requests-slow-down-browser.html for info on the current AJAX implementation and its problems)

limitations: must work on linux/apache/PHP/java (no microsoft)

Jones911

You can use Coldfusion and BlazeDS or Java and BlazeDS to get real time chat applications. BlazeDS is free and if you have java coders is a good option. This can also be accomplished with Coldfusion alone if you have Coldfusion server. Coldfusion and java will run fine on linux.

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/Overview

thomers1

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thx Jones911 - it seems BlazeDS does not support Publish and Subscribe messaging via RTMP, but only using 2 HTTP connections (one for each direction). do you see this as a major drawback?

in general - what other options are there, with emphasis on data binding?

what about JavaFX?

or even JMS with a Java Swing GUI, bundled as a java web start app?

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thomers1

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thx :-)