Re: socket.io with other frameworks (grails, PHP, etc)

[Dan Shaw]

Absolutely. This is basically what we did at Spreecast. There was a
Rails webserver and then another system that handled realtime
interactions with Socket.io. From talking to people, it's a fairly
common use case.

Daniel Shaw
@dshaw


On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:41 AM, James Carr <james....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking into a proof of concept using socket.io with other frameworks
> such as grails. Is this doable?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>

[Angel Java Lopez]

Interesting!

Who calls who? Rails webserver send message to the another system? Or web clients are the senders?

Rails webserver can dialog (bidirectional) with the another system with socket.io?

[Abhishek Soni]

I think it should be doable as the code of javascript is in frontend. and the backend code is in javascript (if you use node.js).

Regards
Ab

[laxmikant]

Hey Guys,
Can I use socket.IO or Node.js to run Log Running processes As
background processes with Django?
Anybody ........?

Thanks
Laxmikant

[Angel Java Lopez]

Apparently, there is a lack of socket.io client implementation in other languages, am I right? My guess: people implements WebSockets.

The first try could be:

- Implement xhr polling

A partial example:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6229472/socket-io-from-php-source

The other way is to have a WebSocket client.... Hmmm, some links from google

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7160899/websocket-client-in-php

https://github.com/lemmingzshadow/php-websocket

http://code.google.com/p/phpws/

@TooTallNate et al. have a WebSocket project in Java

https://github.com/TooTallNate/Java-WebSocket

http://java-websocket.org/

Another one

http://jwebsocket.org/

I guess you can use @TooTallNate project as starting point to connect a Node.js+socket.io server from Grails/Java server side.

But I don't know if socket.io needs a handshake before connecting to a WebSocket client.

Angel "Java" Lopez

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