We are very excited to announce general availability of Lightstreamer Server 6.1, which includes many new features and improvements. Lightstreamer now speaks a brand new protocol, called TLCP. The Android and Java SE client libraries use the new protocol and natively support WebSockets. The iOS client library has become more Swift-friendly. A new client library is available for Microsoft .NET PCL, replacing older .NET, Windows…
We recently released version 2.1.0 of our SDKs for iOS, macOS and tvOS. This version introduces some important changes: See below for more details. Note: if you need download and example pointers, jump directly to the end of the post (“Get the SDKs”). Importing the Client Library Since SDKs are now packaged as a framework, there are…
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Lightstreamer Server 6.0.2, which includes several new and updated components. Client-side SDKs More client libraries have been updated to reflect the Lightstreamer Unified Client API model. We recommend upgrading the client code to make use of the new libraries, even if this requires some rework when migrating from…
Our family of Adapter Development Kits has been further enriched with the Lightstreamer SDK For Python Adapters, which lets developers write Remote Adapter Sets exploiting the power and flexibility of Python, one of the most widely used general purpose high-level languages. The new SDK has been developed keeping in mind the same principles and concepts which drove the…
With the release of Apple TV 4th generation, Apple added a new platform for the development and distribution of apps. We are happy to announce that Lightstreamer now supports this new platform as well, with the same APIs provided for iOS and OS X. The new tvOS Client SDK is directly derived from the iOS…
The Lightstreamer JMS Extender is a new product aimed at porting the JMS interface to the Web and Node.js environments. For those who don’t know the JMS acronym, it stands for Java Message Service and it is a well-known set of APIs used in Java-based environments to provide publish/subscribe and message queuing paradigms. Not only does the…
We are so thrilled to announce that Weswit, the company behind the Lightstreamer product family, has been renamed as Lightstreamer. Weswit pioneered the real-time web since the early 2000s and its flagship product, Lightstreamer, has become the absolute leader among commercial products in the Internet messaging space, in terms of market share. The Lightstreamer brand…
When the iOS SDK came out in 2009, our choice at Lightstreamer was to build a new client library from scratch. We took as a reference the Java client library and started developing an entirely new Objective-C codebase, trying to merge the best object-oriented design we had at that time with a new language and…
We are very excited to announce early availability of brand new client APIs for Android and Java SE. The new APIs follow the Lightstreamer Unified Client API model, which was first introduced with the JavaScript client API. This means that developers of applications for different client platforms will be given the same programming model when using a…
It has been five months since the public release of Lightstreamer 6.0. To make the upgrade process simpler and faster, a few weeks ago we made available an online tool, which automatically converts Lightstreamer 5.1.2 configuration files to version 6.0. Using the tool is straightforward. Just go to https://service.lightstreamer.com/ConfigUpgrade/ and follow the online instructions. You will be able…
In the recent past we have received inquiries from customers and other people asking us to show how to implement full Market Depth, an advanced financial trading feature, with Lightstreamer. We think this is the time to present an example that, in addition to the classic StockList Demo and Portfolio Demo, demonstrates how well the Lightstreamer technology can…