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…
Containerization is one of the most important IT trends over the last two years. Docker heads this technology up, providing an open platform which lets you package up applications with all their dependencies. Applications can be shipped as software containers to enable process isolation, resources optimization, portability, and ease of maintainability and deployment. As passionate about each new exciting…
EDIT 2021:the Lightstreamer Web Client, now supporting ES6 module system, has replaced the Node.js Client in React Native applications, so the trick regarding Babel is no longer necessary.In the past few years, we have seen the diffusion of frameworks like PhoneGap and Titanium, which offer developers the opportunity of building mobile applications using web technologies….
Nowadays, since browsers and mobile devices got powerful, there has been a constant decline of desktop applications, which are getting replaced by mobile and web apps. There are a lot of advantages to writing desktop applications and in some context it’s still preferable. GitHub’s Electron framework (formerly known as Atom Shell) wants to give developers new…
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…
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…
When it comes to fast changing data for online financial applications, software developers know how challenging it can be to deliver excellent performance, especially when web technologies are involved. On the one hand, real-time data must be streamed efficiently over the Internet through firewalls and proxies to reach the users’ desktop or mobile device. On…
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…