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Jabbify Comet Service Released
Brian Moschel and Justin Meyer of JavaScriptMVC have opened their Jabbify chat client into a general purpose Comet service called Jabbify. Some of their claims:
- Automatic Scaling: Jabbify scales to thousands of users per domain with no additional maintenance on your part.
- Instant setup: Download a script and you’re developing with Comet in 30 seconds or less.
- Simple to use: Its easy. Really really easy. All you need is the JavaScript API or GET requests, technologies most developers are very familiar with. Simply connect and send your message.
Here’s a graphic showing how the service works:
Here’s an example of how to use Jabbify to send a message to all users connected to a domain:
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<script type=‘text/javascript’ src=‘jabbify.js’></script>
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<script type=‘text/javascript’>
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// subscribe to incoming Comet messages
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OpenAjax.hub.subscribe("jabbify.message.create", function(name, results){ alert(name) });
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// connect to the server
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Jabbify.connect({name: "Brian"}, function(){
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// send hello world to all connected users
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Jabbify.send("message", "create", { message: "hello world" });
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})
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</script>
The service is currently in beta and is free to use; further:
It will always be free for websites with a small number of concurrent users. We’ve tried to make it as easy as possible to get started with plenty of docs and demos. There’s:
* A downloadable page that runs from the filesystem
* A service overview page
* An API demo
* A keyboard demo
* An open source chat client demo
* API documentationWe’d love to chat with people to see what they think about a service like this.
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