Google’s researchers recently discovered a new vulnerability affecting the SSL protocol. POODLE, which stands for Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption, allows an attacker (a man-in-the-middle) to decrypt ciphertext using a padding oracle side-channel attack. Full details are available in this Google paper. POODLE affects older standards of encryption, specifically Secure Socket Layer (SSL) version 3.0. It does…
A maintenance release of Lightstreamer is now publicly available for download. It contains several fixes and improvements. For paid editions, no license updates are necessary to upgrade, provided that a license for server 5.1 and JS client 6.1 is already in use and the maintenance contract is active. Please contact support@lightstreamer.com if you have any questions. Below is…
Unless you have been living under a rock in the last month or so, you should know Apple introduced a new programming language during WWDC 2014. Like a typical Steve Jobs’ “One more thing” move, Craig Federighi introduced Swift at the very end of the keynote. The intention of the new language is to leave behind some…
Hierarchical exception handling and static exception checking are among the most significant features offered by the Java language; however, their support is limited to procedural code and can only be exploited in hierarchies of function calls. So, there is nothing similar to assist us when it comes to event-driven programming or asynchronous programming, where the…
A new release of the stable version of Lightstreamer is now available, containing updates to: JavaScript client library iOS client library OS X client library JavaScript Client Library The new version is 6.1.1. It fixes an issue with Chrome browser version 33 and newer, where a harmless request for a page named “null” was performed to the…
We are very pleased to announce the early public availability of the next release of Lightstreamer Colosseo: version 6.0. Lightstreamer now includes support for Mobile Push Notifications (MPN). Clients have new APIs to activate special subscriptions whose updates are delivered through push notifications. New MPN subscriptions are persistent, compatible with existing data adapters, and require only one call to be activated. Now, just…
We are very excited to report that Lightstreamer exhibited at the prestigious HTML5 Developers Conference held on October 22-23, 2013 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. HTML5DevConf is one of the largest, best attended software developer conferences in the world. The event also included three days of training sessions, all of which sold out weeks…
I had some spare time, so I decided to put together some code to make a PoC integration between our Lightstreamer JavaScript client library and Google’s AngularJS. The integration went smoothly: simply prepare the view using AngularJS syntax, then populate the associated model object with the data flowing in from the Lightstreamer subscription. At each update,…
A few weeks ago, we released part of our Lightstreamer JavaScript Client library as an open source project on GitHub (actually, four projects). The initial idea was to release our visual layer as an open source addon to our client library. It was 2011 and at that time the latest release of our client library…
Version 1.0 of our new Lightstreamer Client SDK for the OS X platform is now available. The OS X client library is directly derived from the iOS client library, with which is API compatible. It supports automatic reconnection, automatic resubscription, stream sensing and advanced thread pooling just like the iOS one. A sample application is…
Because of the increasing popularity of server-side JavaScript, some weeks ago we released a Node module which enables you to write a Lightstreamer adapter that runs inside Node.js. If you are not familiar with Lightstreamer, it is a server that implements bi-directional real-time messaging for mobile, browser-based, and desktop apps. And a Lightstreamer adapter is a custom piece of…
Cloud services like Amazon AWS are a perfect way to reduce the time and costs associated to exploring, testing, and deploying new technologies. You choose an AMI, launch an EC2 instance and you are done. A brand new machine with all the software you need is ready to use! The good news is that now we provide…