CloudBees First to Offer Java Paas for WebSocket Standard

CloudBees, Inc. announced that it has begun collaboration with NGINX to provide support for the new WebSocket Web standard, Yahoo!Finance reports.

CloudBees offers Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), a solution that lets developers create Java applications through the cloud and a Web browser instead of an IDE, keeping other software or administration tools from having to be installed or used.

With WebSocket support, developers can now use CloudBees’ PaaS to create and deliver standards-based Web and mobile applications that run on the CloudBees platform.

The WebSocket protocol allows highly-interactive Web applications to be created with a long-lived connection between browser and website. WebSocket is excellent for gaming, stock quotes, news reports, ticket sales and medical devices, among other applications that require a high level of interactivity.

It supports real-time, bidirectional communications over TCP.

CloudBees WebSocket integration will be limited at first; CloudBees has teamed up with NGINX to get WebSocket onto their serves, allowing CloudBees to be the first PaaS vendor to support it through NGINX.

NGINX currently has over 80 million domains, including near 30 percent of the 10,000 most active websites in the world.

“We use NGINX at CloudBees,” said Setven G. Harris, senior vice president of products at CloudBees. “There are several reasons why it has become so popular—it’s incredibly fast and reliable, and it scales like crazy. Now there’s an additional reason: NGINX supports WebSocket. We’re very glad to be able to offer the power of WebSocket to CloudBees customers at the same time that NGINX makes it available to their customers. In fact, CloudBees has already done the integration, so you get access today to WebSocket running and scaling out on your favorite stack—no waiting for your old middleware vendor to figure it out.”