ApacheCon EU 2014

WebSocket is a full-duplex transport protocol developed as part of HTML5 and has caught attention not only for Browser applications but also also for application integration. This simple HTTP based protocol can operate over a single socket and does not suffer from network restriction such as proxies and firewalls when establishing a duplex channel.

New WebSocket support in Apache CXF can be used to invoke an asynchronous JAX-WS service over a single WebSocket connection instead of using two separate HTTP connections, to establish a direct node connection in a cluster environment, and to asynchronously push data from a JAX-RS service to its client. And Apache Camel now supporting both the client and server side WebSockets can be used to integrate and compose various WebSocket applications with other applications.