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 As a result some of the descriptions of this article are a bit outdated.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…
No, we are not talking about the old, amazing Rolling Stones Song. We are just enthusiastic to introduce the Startup Program, a way Weswit can provide promising new businesses with Lightstreamer technology at an exceptionally generous rate. We are more than sure that smart tools are mandatory requirements to transform a good idea into a great success. Many…
Cool Vendor Report 2012 Cites Weswit, with its Lightstreamer Product, as Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing in the Area of Application and Integration Platforms. Weswit is proud to announce that it has been recognized by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor in Application and Integration Platforms” in the report published on April 11, 2012 (i). Quoting Gartner’s report, “Web streaming is an…
We are very excited to announce that an early-availability release of next generation Lightstreamer is now publicly available for download: Lightstreamer 5.0, codename Colosseo. Lightstreamer includes now full support for WebSockets, the new Web standard from IETF that enables bi-directional, full-duplex communication over the Web. Even if WebSockets are not yet universally supported by browsers and network infrastructure, Lightstreamer is…
A patch release of Lightstreamer 4, codename Duomo, is now generally available for download. Lightstreamer Server v. 4.0.3 build 1513.1.11 contains some fixes that solve potential issues with polling mode. In particular, with previous versions (from 4.0 to 4.0.2) under some circumstances, polling cycles might be more frequent than needed or return less updates than requested. Most…
An update to Lightstreamer software is available for download. Lightstreamer Server v. 4.0.2 contains a fix that solves a potential issue with polling mode and older browsers. Other minor changes to Lightstreamer Server and to some client libraries are included, as explained in the detailed changelog. Our engineering team is currently working hard on the new release of…
A new update to Lightstreamer Server 4.0 is available for download.The new version is 4.0.1 build 1513.1.3. This release fixes a bug introduced with Lightstreamer 4.0 that affects HTTPS connections. Under some circumstances, when very large control requests are sent (usually due to very long item and field names, combined with high numbers of subscriptions) the…
We recently released an update to the latest distribution of Lightstreamer (codename Duomo, which contains Server 4.0 and HTML Client 5.0). Such update, which is available from the usual download page, contains two changes: Lightstreamer Server: fixed the time format in the audit log files (which are used to collect statistics on the number of concurrent…
By Alessandro Alinone (originally published on Comet Daily) More than ten years have passed since the creation of Lightstreamer. Now that Lightstreamer 4.0 is generally available, it is a good moment to look back at what happened in the history of Push/Comet and to share a short analysis of the current trends from Lightstreamer’s perspective. 1996-2000:…
We are very proud to announce that the new version of Lightstreamer, codename Duomo, is now generally available. New Lightstreamer contains many exciting improvements, making it the perfect solution whenever you need to deliver real-time messages through the Internet. Performance has been improved, making Lightstreamer Server even more scalable and faster than before. It is now easier to…