README.md

Welcome to Atmosphere: The Asynchronous WebSocket/Comet Framework

The Atmosphere Framework contains client and server side components for building Asynchronous Web Applications. The majority of popular frameworks are either supporting Atmosphere or supported natively by the framework. The Atmosphere Framework supports all major Browsers and Servers

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Atmosphere transparently supports WebSockets, Server Side Events (SSE), Long-Polling, HTTP Streaming (Forever frame) and JSONP.

This project contains the Javascript clients available for all Atmosphere's version and Node.js. We offer a pure Javascript Client and a jQuery Plugin

To bootstap the client using Maven, add the following dependency:

     <dependency>
         <groupId>org.atmosphere.client</groupId>
         <artifactId>{jquery|javascript}</artifactId>
         <version>2.0.3</version>
      </dependency>