WebSockets now!
Saturday February 25, 10:30 am - 11:30 am
The next version of Adobe ColdFusion will have web sockets support, through both server-side components as well as a tag that builds the client-side code to communicate with the server. This can be done today, in both Open BlueDragon and Railo.
For the server side, we'll be looking at the Railo Web Sockets Gateway Extension, as well as the recently released socket connection support in Open BlueDragon.
On the client side, we'll be looking at socket.io, which provides both a server-side and client-side component for building cross-browser web socket apps (We're only interested in the client side, but we may take a look at the server side node.js code for fun!)
We'll build a quick little chat app to illustrate what a real-time web app using web sockets looks like.
Billy Cravens
Billy has been working with ColdFusion since version 4.0 (1999), and has been an advocate for the language ever since. He is current manager of the Houston ColdFusion Users Group, and has served on the board of the Dallas CFUG. Billy was a technical reviewer for Wrox Publishing's only ColdFusion title (as well as some of their first .NET titles). As an independent consultant, he builds solutions for other platforms as well, including .NET and node.js. His current focus is on leveraging cloud solutions to build high-end solution with a minimal footprint.
