The Atmosphere Framework 2.3.0 released!

Cross-Framework and Cross-Browser Asynchronous Framework for Real Time Applications on the JVM

The Async-IO dev team are pleased to announce the release of The Atmosphere Framework 2.3.0! You can download it here

More than 8 months of work now available! Besides all of the performance and easy of use improvements made since Atmosphere 2.3, version 2.3 comes with a host of improvements and new features and 139 fixed issues since our last release! Those changes alone makes it worth upgrading! Atmosphere 2.3 has also been optimized for our flagship product: Atmosphere Pro 2.0, which is a must have when going in production!

Highlights:

  • Atmosphere now fully supports CDI, Spring or Guice and also ships with native support for javax.inject.Inject in case you don't want to use those heavyweight frameworks.
  • Apache Kafka is now natively supported
  • A new Poolable BroadcasterFactory for high throughput when many Broadcasters are used
  • Overall Performance improved and Cleaner API

Atmosphere 3.0.0 is our next major release and targeted for October 2015

Atmosphere Stack

Atmosphere 2.3.0: Stability and Performance!

I/O Frameworks and Servers

Tomcat 5+/6+/7+/8+, Jetty 5+/6+/7+/8+/9+ (including upcoming 9.3.x), Undertow/Wildfly 8+, JBoss 6+/7+, GlassFish 3+/4+ WebLogic 12+, WebSphere 8+, Netty 3+, Vert.x 2+ and Play 2+

Scary number of Frameworks supported

Atmosphere 2.3 is natively supported in PrimeFaces, Apache Wicket, Grails, Spring's Reactor, GWT, Jersey, Vaadin, RichFaces, Apache CFX, Apache Tuscany, Apache Tapestry etc.

Atmosphere 2.3 also can be used with any Servlet based framework like Jersey 2.x,RestEasy, Apache Wink, framework like SocksJs, Socket.IO, Cloud solutions like Kafka, Hazelcast, Redis, JGroups or JMS for extreme scaling! You can download and read more those extensions here

JavaScript Client: You have choice! Node.js included!!

atmosphere.js Socket.IO, SocksJS, JQuery, NPM and Twitter's Bower Support also included!

JVM Client: wAsync: Android, Node.js and Atmosphere altogether!

Atmosphere 2.3 now ships with a new performance improved wAsync 2.1.0. wAsync supports Android, Node.js and Atmosphere.

Several Samples: Pick the one you like to get started

Get started documentations. Many easy to use Samples! are available as wel!!

Get it now!

The Atmosphere Framework 2.3. Stack contains the following components

  • runtime: Server side components
  • extensions: Extensions
  • STOMP: Stomp Protocol Support
  • javascript: client side library for Atmosphere
  • wAsync: Java client side library for Atmosphere
  • NettoSphere: server side server running on top of the Netty Framework
  • VertoSphere: server side server running on top of the Vert.x Framework
  • Playtosphere: server side server running on top of the Play! Framework