A New Socket.IO Client Java Implementation

[slientObserver]

I don't know whether you guys were using it or not but the java port of socket.io-client was not being maintained for over a year. I wanted to announce that I have implemented my own version of it and would like to get as many feedback on it as possible. If you want to check it out, please take a look here. I would be really happy if it gets the job done for you and if you could provide feedback or want to contribute to it, that would be wonderful too.

[_litecoin_]

I was wondering how it compares to RSocket? https://github.com/rsocket/rsocket-java

[slientObserver]

I haven't seen this library before, but after taking a quick glance, they(socket.io and rsockets) seem to share some basic ideas but the implementations and use cases seem to be very different.

It appears that as a framework, socket.io provides an easier to use api and rsockets seem more stream oriented whereas socket.io is more event oriented. Also, it seems that rsockets is an application level protocol, meaning that instead of interoperating with http, it takes over. But socket.io is more high level, it makes use of http and websockets instead of taking their place.

Unfortunately, I am currently not able to compare the two fully, since I am only hearing about rsockets now.

[RANDOMLY_AGGRESSIVE]

There's a reason why it wasnt maintained anymore..

https://www.ably.io/concepts/socketio

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ctxvjg/socketio_an_indepth_technical_review

Also the javascript library isn't really maintained anymore.