Socket.IO and Play Framework

[Drew]

Hey guys,

Has anyone in this group successfully integrated Socket.IO with Play
Framework? I am planning on using https://github.com/ibdknox/socket.io-netty
to write a module for Play, but figured to ask on this group to make
sure I'm not reinventing the wheel.

Thanks,

Drew

[Kyle Mathews]

Hey Drew,
Did you ever complete your Socket.io integration with Play?

Kyle

[Drew]

No, after some more research, we figured Web Sockets or Long-Polling
weren't good fits for our app. We decided to do good ol' ajax refresh.
The issue is that once you use Web Sockets, then you lose stateless-
ness since there is a persistent connection between the client and the
server. In addition, you really have to think twice before going down
that path since you're going to end up with servers with A LOT of
connections.

[mbaroukh]

Hi.

If you have any experience to share, I would love to heard it.
Having a lot or connections is what asynchronous programming is made
for : using await I thought wecould then handle thousands of
connections without many cpu usage. Isn't this right ?