My last few articles on this blog site have all dealt with push architecture and technology in some way. This is an area that I have been investigating into quite bit recently. Part of these investigations had to be of course Kaazing, a specialized commercial offering, specifcally around WebSockets and its application in new HTML 5 application architectures.

Kaazing suggests a new way of implementing multi-tier (web) applications.

Communication between client and back end services happens over WebSockets. The Kaazing Gateway handles all WebSockets communication, turning messages from various back end services based on technologies such RSS, XMPP, JMS into WebSocket events.

Kaazing supports a variety of clients – though HTML 5 (JavaScript) web clients (including those running on mobile devices) are probably the most prominent ones.

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