Lightstreamer Journal

"This demonstration further emphasizes the possibilities of the real-time web," said Dylan Schiemann (pictured), AJAXWorld 2007 (East) speaker, CEO of SitePen, Inc. and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, as he announced that Dojo has been integrated with Lightstreamer, a high-performance Streaming-AJAX (Comet) engine. "Dojo's widget system and event model are well-suited for integrating with Lightstreamer's Comet server," he continued, adding: "Quite frankly, we were blown away by the ease and simplicity of getting Lightstreamer up and running within just a few minutes." SitePen has developed a Dojo application showing real-time server-pushed data displayed through tables and charts. “The seamless integration between Lightstreamer and Dojo is an important achievement”, said Alessandro Alinone, CTO of Lightstreamer. “We are a very focused company and ou... (more)

Advanced Millennium Technologies to Distribute Lightstreamer’s COMET Products in India

Advanced Millennium Technologies (AMT) has inked a partnership agreement with Lightstreamer. According to the agreement, AMT will distribute Lightstreamer push technology (COMET) products in the fast growing Indian Market. Lightstreamer is a push server for live data distribution based on the AJAX-Comet paradigm (also known as “AJAX Push”). In web development, COMET is a term used to describe a web application model in which a web server is able to push real-time data to a browser, based on a subscription paradigm. Lightstreamer is one of the oldest products used widely for COMET... (more)

Google Chrome Compatible with Lightstreamer AJAX

Chrome, the new Google browser, was released yesterday as a beta version for Windows Vista/XP and officially entered the browser war, where the primary competitors are currently Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome offers many interesting features, aimed at making the browsing experience more robust, more secure, and faster. Lightstreamer, with its eight-year history, is the leading push server for live data distribution through the Web. Based on the AJAX/Comet paradigm, it is able to deliver real-time data to very normal Web pages, without painful plug-ins or... (more)

Lightstreamer 3.5 To Be Launched at 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Lightstreamer Server v.3.5 has been publicly released and will be showcased at the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West in San Jose (October 20-22, 2008). Lightstreamer is an all-round solution to push real-time data to any type of application through the Internet. Implementing the Ajax/Comet paradigm, Lightstreamer can update any Web page without downloading anything on the client machine. Mobile browsers and Flex, Java, and .NET clients are supported too. The new version of Lightstreamer includes several new features, many of which have been derived from customer feedback in... (more)

Lightstreamer Supports Real-Time Data Push to the iPhone

Lightstreamer is a software product for delivering real-time textual data to any kind of application through the Internet. Banks and online-gaming companies typically use it to dispatch live updates to their Web pages or Flex applications, supporting high numbers of parallel connections. Recently, solutions have been released that use Lightstreamer to push live data to the iPhone. There are two active fronts: solutions that push the data to the iPhone browser and solutions that push the data to iPhone native applications. In the first category, a pioneer is IG Group. In March 20... (more)