Server push: comet vs ape?

Question

I\'ve read a little about comet and also APE.

Which one is better? I want the users to see other users updated content. Like Google Wave.

And in comet, there are

Answer 1

Etherpad.com, the super fast real time document sharing tool used comet to provide near real time screen updates of collaborations from other editors. The company that makes etherpad (AppJet) just got purchased by Google to work on Google Wave

Check out http://etherpad.com/ep/about/faq

and http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/ (open source etherpad) to see their implementation.

I vote for comet because of the commercial success of etherpad and the google wave implementation using comet.