Event Driven AJAX (Comet) - Part 2 - Handling Concurrent Views

Posted on September 14th, 2006 by tom.
Categories: AJAX, Comet, JAHA, Tech.

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In Part 1 of this series, we saw how event driven AJAX (a form of Comet) can be used to push data to the client without the need for periodic client side polling. However, we also observed that event driven AJAX broke as soon as the client had multiple views of the same page. Worse still, event driven AJAX in its current form also fails to support having more than one page open on an event driven AJAX site. This this article we will investigate how to solve this issue.

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Event Driven AJAX - Part 1 - Pushing Server Side Events

Posted on July 25th, 2006 by tom.
Categories: AJAX, Comet, Tech.

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Event Driven AJAX is inspired by Comet to provide a mechanism for updating a page based on server side events, rather than waiting for user driven requests or client side polling. In this article an overview of the event driven AJAX concept is provided, along with a proof of concept demonstration of its use.

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