Creating a Chat Application using Java EE 7, Websockets and GlassFish 4

Java EE 7 is out now and so I was curious to play around with the new specifications and APIs from in this technology stack. That’s why I didn’t hesitate to add yet another websocket-chat tutorial to the existing ones on the internet in favour of gathering some experience with this technology and a possible integration using a GlassFish 4 server, the new Java API for JSON Processing for data serialization combined with custom websocket encoders/decoders and finally adding some Bootstrap and jQuery on the client side. ...

August 13, 2013 · 8 min · 1591 words · Micha Kops