Comet and Reverse Ajax : The Next-Generation Ajax 2.0 - McCarthy, Dennis; Crane, Chris; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2009)
What is Comet? -- The trouble with HTTP -- Some Common Use Cases -- How to Achieve Push.-Polling -- Piggy-backing -- Comet -- Raw Sockets -- Comparison & Evaluation -- Worked Example : Magnetic Poetry.-Issues & Techniques -- The two-request limit -- Pub-sub and server architectures -- Continuations versus naive Comet -- Implementations of Comet -- Cometd & Bayeux -- Reverse Ajax in DWR -- DWR worked example.
Keywords: Computer programming; Software engineering; Web Development; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems