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Is socket.push(bytes) all what you need to program Realtime Web apps?

One of the goals of Play2 architecture is to provide a programming model for what is called Realtime Web Applications.

Realtime Web Applications

Realtime Web Applications are applications making use of Websockets, Server Sent Events, Comet or other protocols offering/simulating an open socket between the browser and the server for continuous communication. Basically, these applications offer to users delivery of information as it is published without having the user periodically pinging the service.

There are quite a few web frameworks that target the development of this type of applications. Mostly, however, the solution is by providing an API that allows developers to push/receive messages from/to an open channel, something like:

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# Simple, scrappy UDP DNS server in Ruby (with protocol annotations)
# By Peter Cooper
#
# MIT license
#
# * Not advised to use in your production environment! ;-)
# * Requires Ruby 1.9
# * Supports A and CNAME records
# * See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt for protocol guidance
# * All records get the same TTL

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window.t = (id, vars = {}) ->
  template = i18n[__locale][id] or i18n['en'][id] or "(?) #{id}"
  _.template(template, vars)

# yes, that's it

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//Adds $.xhr and jQuery-like $.ajax methods to the prescribed namespace.
//Inspired from David Flanagans excellent cross-platform utils http://www.davidflanagan.com/javascript5/display.php?n=20-1&f=20/01.js
//Includes underscore.js _.each and _.extend methods
//modified to behave like jQuery's $.ajax(), not complete.
(function($) {
    var win=window, xhrs = [
           function () { return new XMLHttpRequest(); },
           function () { return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); },
           function () { return new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0"); },
           function () { return new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP"); }

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class Observer

    bind : (event, fn) ->
        this._events ||= {}
        this._events[event] ||= []
        this._events[event].push(fn)

    unbind: (event, fn) ->
        @_events ||= {}