HTML5 Communication & Websockets

This is a highly practical, three-day class about HTML5 Communication for Real-time Web applications, using Web Sockets, Server-Sent Events (SSE), PostMessage, Cross-Document Messaging, and more. This course will teach you how to create next generation real-time Web 2.0 solutions, using HTML 5 Communication, which will work in today's browsers.

Come and learn about HTML5 Communication and Web Sockets architecture. With these new standards, the browser can now enjoy the first-class citizenry of network communications that has long been enjoyed by desktop applications. You will learn how to use the emerging standards to build scalable, mission critical real-time Web 2.0 applications such as:

* Trading System Clients
* Online Betting Applications
* Social Chat Solutions
* Performance Monitoring Applications
* RFID and GPS Tracking Applications
* Sports and News Broadcasting Applications

Upon completion of this course you will know how to create your own scalable, real-time Web applications with the latest HTML5 Communication technologies.



PROGRAMME:

History of the Real-Time Web

The Web Today

* The current state of the web
* About the HTTP protocol
* About AJAX
* Polling, or ''nearly real-time''
Lab: "Fake-Time Stock" - A polling stock matrix

Previous push technology attempts

* Reverse AJAX and Comet
* Server-initiated message delivery
* Long-polling and streaming
* Comet runtime implementations
* What's next?
Demonstration: "The Stock Matrix"

Push Technology Concerns

* Scalability
* Shared notification pipeline
* Network flooding
* Security
* Cross-domain issues
* Connection limit
* Bypassing proxies

Improving the Application

* Addressing the concerns
* Architecture overview
* Establishing connections
* Streaming data to a client
* Notification pipeline
* Polling and streaming
* Building blocks
Lab: "Cleaning Up the Stock Matrix" - Replacing the polling piece in the earlier stock matrix

Client-Side Frameworks Integration

* Overview of client side frameworks
* Integrating with different client-side frameworks
Lab: "Polish that Stock" - Enhancing the stock matrix using a toolkit

HTML5 WebSockets and Server-Sent Events

HTML5 WebSockets and Server-Sent Events

* HTML5 Communication specification
* Standard WebSocket server implementations
Lab: "Running WebSocket" - Installing and testing a WebSocket server

Introduction to Transport Protocols

* Transport protocol overview
* Notification pipeline
* Payload
* Protocols
* Integration with (useful) transport protocols
* Practical use cases
Demonstration: "Chat and Stock"

Real-Time Integration with Stomp and Apache ActiveMQ

* Overview
* Stomp protocol
* Client-side APIs for the Stomp protocol
* Apache ActiveMQ
* RabbitMQ
* About AMQP Integration
* About JMS Integration
Lab: "working with Stomp" - Creating a simple Stomp client

Real-Time Integration with XMPP and other Chat Protocols

* Overview of XMPP
* Client-side APIs for XMPP
* Integrating with GTalk and Jabber
Lab: "Talk the Talk" - Creatng a Facebook-like chat solution with naive XMPP protocol support

Cross-Domain Issues

* Overview of existing concerns
* Domains and subdomains
* Connection sharing
* Browser limitations (two-connection limit) and support
Lab: "Combo Platter" - Combining the stock matrix and the Facebook-like chat applications into one application

WebSockets in the Enterprise

Creating a Custom WebSocket Protocol Client

* Protocol implementation decisions
* Implementing the protocol client
Lab: "Be Creative" - Writing a Stomp protocol client in JavaScript

Network Flooding

* Message flooding
* Management
Lab: "Throttle It!" - Configuring Apache ActiveMQ and Stomp protocol throttling

Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance

* Scalability architecture
* Scaling up
* Scaling out
* Java VM limitations
* Java Real-Time benefits
* Fault tolerance
* Data partitioning
* Tools and utilities for testing and benchmarking (open source)
Lab: " Benchmarking Websockets" - Using opensource tools to benchmark performance

Security

* Security Overview
* Protocol-based security
* Protocol validation
* SSL certificates
* Single sign-on
Lab: "Lockdown" - Configuring a Websocket server for secure access



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£1450 if booked by 22nd March

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