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…
We are very excited to announce that several Lightstreamer’s customers in the financial industry, where our product consolidated its success and value, have been awarded for the coveted Shares Awards 2012 on November 15, 2012 at London’s Grovenor House Hotel. This prestigious UK’s financial services gala reached its 11th edition this year, and it’s certainly recognized as one of the…
The problem Did you know iOS has a limit on the number of concurrent NSURLConnections to the same end-point? No? Maybe you should, we discovered it the hard way.Create a new single-view app project on Xcode and copy the following snippet inside the viewDidLoad event of your view controller: Then add some simple NSURLConnection delegate event handlers: …
With the introduction of Windows 8, a new application architecture, namely Windows Runtime or WinRT, was also introduced. WinRT, which has to be used for an application to be published on the Windows Store, is not fully compatible with the old .NET framework. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered again: with the release of Lightstreamer 5.1 we have made…
We are very excited to announce that a new version of Lightstreamer is now publicly available for download. The new package, tagged Lightstreamer 5.1 Colosseo 20121220, contains updated versions of several components (such as Lightstreamer Server 5.1, Lightstreamer JavaScript Client 6.0.1, Lightstreamer iOS Client 1.2, etc.) as well as a brand new client SDK for Windows 8 WinRT. WHAT’S NEW…
It seems that even Lightstreamer has been affected by the holiday season mood 🙂 We would like to wish all the Lightstreamer users a happy holiday season and a prosperous 2013 year! Thanks for supporting us. Warm regards,The Lightstreamer Team
We are happy to see that Lightstreamer resulted the winner in a presentation titled “Realtime Apps with Lightstreamer, GWT & HTML5” by Detelin Zlatev and Mariyan Nenchev from Cayetano Gaming, at the recent Java2Days 2012 Conference. Java2Days 2012 Conference took place on October 25-26 in Sofia, Bulgaria to highlight today’s cutting edge Java trends in field of software development, technologies, and business. Cayetano Gaming,…
Lightstreamer JavaScript client version 6 brings some new interesting features and some long-awaited changes. This time we’ve chosen not to pass from the deprecate-first remove-then path as we’ve always done: in fact the entire API was completely designed from scratch to be more flexible and easy to use. Unfortunately, this also means that some effort…
If you have been knowing Lightstreamer for a long time, you appreciate that it has always been particularly good at managing the bandwidth used by the stream connection and the individual update rate of each subscription. In addition to heuristically spot network congestions and adapting the data flow automatically, Lightstreamer has always offered an API…
[UPDATE 2014]The original hello world application was simplified by the PhoneGap team. We adapted our own demo to be as close as possible to the original one. As a result some of the descriptions of this article are a bit outdated. Most of it is still valid though, so you can safely go on reading.[/UPDATE]…
We are very thrilled to announce that the final release of Lightstreamer 5.0, codename Colosseo, is now generally available for download. Lightstreamer 5.0 includes full support for WebSockets, a brand new JavaScript client API, impressive performance boost, and many new features. WebSocket Support The WebSocket protocol is a new Web standard that enables bidirectional, full-duplex communication over the Web. Lightstreamer…