Well done, that sounds like a great project.
But I am curious... have you experienced any problems with the Mashup
Server and anti-virus or firewall software? I have found that Comet data
seems to be blocked by some such programs. Specifically, Kaspersky Internet
Security 7.0 running on Vista x64 suspects that Comet traffic is not
legitimate HTTP data and blocks it in its default configuration. Some
tweaking can get around this but it concerns me that Comet-enabled web sites
may not load when this software is installed and this would greatly
discourage users who are unlikely to be patient enough to fiddle with the
settings to get things to work.
I have tested my use of Comet on Windows Server 2003 and XP as well with
other AV and firewall software and no such problems emerged. So far, the
problem only happens with Vista and Kaspersky but there's no reason to think
that other systems that offer advanced protection would necessarily be
immune from it as well.
So I would be very interested to hear you feedback on this.
Thanks,
John
From: ALT Mobile DEV [mailto:dev_at_altmobile.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2008 23:10
To: users_at_grizzly.dev.java.net
Cc: Jeanfrancois Arcand
Subject: [ANN] Announcing the Dynamic Mashup Server
Importance: High
To commemorate Grizzly's open source birthday, I just announced the <alt>
Dynamic Mashup Server on the company blog. Truth be told, we launched the
blog just for Grizzly :-)
The blog can be found at:
http://web.mac.com/altmobile/
--Zaid
ALT Mobile
http://altmobile.com/Home.html
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Dynamic Mashup Server Debuts
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
We are pleased to announce the <alt> Dynamic Mashup Server. Built to support
internet scale amalgamation of web content, the Dynamic Mashup Server is the
industry's first Comet enabled mash-up server.
Implementing all of the major AJAX and Comet technologies such as XHR
multipart, forever frame, XHR streaming, and forever script; the Dynamic
Mashup Server supports HTTP Streaming to desktop browsers as well as Safari
on iPhone. Single-site browsers (SSB) such as Mozilla's Prism
<http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism> and widget platforms such as Opera
Widgets <http://widgets.opera.com/> , Microsoft Vista Sidebar Gadgets, and
Mac OS X Dashboard are also supported clients.
Comet services are provided through a custom version of Sun's Grizzly
<https://grizzly.dev.java.net/> web server technology.
Other cool features of the Dynamic Mashup Server include RSS mash-up feed
generation and text-to-speech output to support visually impaired user
access.
Implemented to run on 64-bit Java Virtual Machines, the Dynamic Mashup
Server integrates into our virtual Web 2.0 containers which provide isolated
access and execution of remote web content ensuring that mash-up clients are
protected from potentially harmful HTML and JavaScript. Mash-up isolation is
also necessary to avoid XSS attacks.
The perfect companion to our Web 2.0
<http://altmobile.com/Technologies/Web%202.0/Web%202.0.html> developer
tools, the Dynamic Mashup Server supports mash-up RDF meta models which
provide a realistic implementation of the semantic web.
The <alt> Dynamic Mashup Server will be available in Q2 of this year.
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