Frank Greco is the founder of the New York Java Special Interest Group (NYJavaSIG), one of the largest Java Users Groups (JUGs) on the planet with over 8,000 active members in the local Java community. The NYJavaSIG has had some of the most famous Java luminaries speak at their meetings, including Java Champions Brian Goetz, Rod Johnson, Doug Lea and Josh Bloch. Their members are very enthusiastic and, like most New Yorkers, don't hesitate to ask tough questions of their monthly speakers.
Frank has a long history as a "Champion" of the Java Platform; he taught a developer track session at the very first Java Day back in September 1995 in New York and started the NYJavaSIG that afternoon. Frank has been involved with software development for over 10 years and has worked on sophisticated architectures, innovative user interfaces, mobile computing and next-generation collaborative financial systems. Frank is both a Java community leader as well as a luminary technologist specializing in cloud services and enterprise architectures.
Lately there has been a lot of buzz around HTML5 Web Sockets, which defines a
full-duplex communication channel that operates through a single socket over
the Web. HTML5 Web Sockets is not just another incremental enhancement to
conventional HTTP communications; it represents a colossal advance,
especially for real-time, event-driven web applications.
HTML5 Web Sockets provides such a dramatic improvement from the old,
convoluted "hacks" that are used to simulate a full-duplex connection in a
browser that it prompted Google's Ian Hickson - the HTML5 specification lead
- to say:
"Reducing kilobytes of data to 2 bytes...and reducing latency from 150ms to
50ms is far more than marginal. In fact, these two factors alone are enough
to make Web Sockets seriously interesting to Google."
Let's look at how HTML5 Web Sockets can offer such an incredibly dramatic
reduction of... (more)
Frank Greco is the founder of the New York Java Special Interest Group (NYJavaSIG), one of the largest Java Users Groups (JUGs) on the planet with over 8,000 active members in the local Java community. The NYJavaSIG has had some of the most famous Java luminaries speak at their meetings, including Java Champions Brian Goetz, Rod Johnson, Doug Lea and Josh Bloch. Their members are very enthusiastic and, like most New Yorkers, don't hesitate to ask tough questions of their monthly speakers.
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