WebSocket support is still not very up-to-snuff in the world of Java Servlet containers and even web browsers. Therefore, our existing WebSocket support is technically considered experimental .
But when it comes to the open source community, there's never any shortage of people willing to play. And we'd love it for you to give the feature a spin.
The WebSocket server is a built-in feature of ErraiBus 2.0. Therefore all you really need to do, metaphorically speaking, is flip the switch to turn it on. You do this by adding the following line to your ErraiService.properties file:
errai.bus.enable_web_socket_server=true
Now startup your app, and use a compatible browser (like Chrome or Firefox) and connect to your app. Then, open up your JavaScript console and check to see that it actually worked:
Hey, check it out! Errai opened a web socket. You can actually see more information about the connection state itself by executing the JavaScript function errai_status() from the console:
You may notice something curious here, however: the WebSocket server is running on port 8085 not port 8080 with the rest of the appserver. This is simply because currently, due to lack of standardized support in Java Servlet containers (although there is an effort afoot to remedy this), we currently run the WebSocket server as a sideband server.
This, of course, is not ideal and it's something that we at JBoss are working to address in an internal cross-project effort. I hope to be making some interesting announcements about that over the next year.
But that's not the end of the world, of course. There are front-end proxy solutions which can be used to remedy this problem and munge the servicing of the WebSocket onto the same public-facing port -- the facilities of which are usually good practice for any application server environment in any case.
Anyways, I'd love to hear back from the community on this.
Mike, out.
