Over recent years, user expectations regarding a more interactive experience with their favorite web applications have greatly increased—more so than desktop applications actually provide. As you may have noticed, desktop products such as the MSN and Yahoo messengers have been replaced with smarter and trendier web application alternatives. The thanks for that go to the World Wide Web Consortium, as their advancements in web technologies have enabled the launch of such amazing products.
Without a doubt, WebSockets is one of the major overall advancements in HTTP communication. It extends HTTP to allow it to handle one or more full-duplex communication channels over a single HTTP connection, enabling all kinds of applications with real-time communication requirements to appear in the web market, such as chatting, multi-player gaming, collaborative document editing, and much more. Therefore, Java naturally includes its own Java...