| Developing Applications Using Reverse Ajax Reverse Ajax allows updates to be pushed from the server to the browser or browsers so that all users are aware of changes made. DWR's reverse Ajax introduces a very neat way to manage this transfer of information. It takes responsibility for deciding which techniques (polling, comet or piggyback) are best to use in each situation.
This article compares three reverse ajax techniques (polling, comet, piggyback) supported by DWR. This reverse ajax article demonstrate how easily a chat web page can be created using reverse Ajax to an existing web application. The web page is a simple multi-user chat demo, allowing a number of users to see the messages that each submits. Reverse Ajax is used to collect the messages, and server-side browser manipulation updates the pages with the results http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/03/22/developing-applications-using-reverse-ajax.html
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