Polling, Comet, WebSockets, etc

Question

I\'m needing to build in some pretty agressive \"auto refresh\" capabilities into a web application. It\'s kind of a photo gallery and the images are stored on AmazonS3 but the

Answer 1

The WS-I group published something called "Reliable Secure Profile" that has a Glass Fish and .NET implementation that apparently inter-operate well.

With any luck there is a Javascript implementation out there as well.

There is also a Silverlight implementation that uses HTTP Duplex. You can connect javascript to the Silverlight object to get callbacks when a push occurs.

There are also commercial paid versions as well.