Comet support for step?

[vvilhonen]

Would it be possible to implement comet support with actors for Step or is it already possible somehow?

[rossabaker]

I'm not aware of anybody who is doing this with Step yet, but I see no reason that you couldn't. It might be worth a post to the mailing list to see if anybody else is using Step + Comet. Also, if you're looking for a Scala framework with first-class Comet support, I think that Liftweb is the best bet today.

[rossabaker]

I'm still a Comet newbie. What would be gained by implementing Bayeux yourself rather than reusing Cometd or Atmosphere? I don't have a good feel for Cometd vs. Atmosphere, but I've noticed that Akka has HTTP support built on Atmosphere.

[vvilhonen]

It would be nice to have some scalatra like API to interface with comet services. Like in lift you hardly notice that you are doing comet as you just create an actor that receives and sends comet messages by inheriting certain class.

[casualjim]

fixed by 40c66fd

[vvilhonen]

Nice, thank you!