Kaazing Open Gateway is an open source, full-duplex streaming Web Socket Server, and is the world's first enterprise-ready implementation of the HTML 5 Web Sockets and Server-Sent Events specification—a standards-based alternative to Comet and Ajax.

The HTML 5 Web sockets specification introduces the Web Socket interface, which defines a full-duplex single socket connection over which messages can be sent between client and server. The Web Socket standard is the first standard that attempts to simplify much of the complexity around connection management in Comet and Ajax development.

Web Sockets represent an alternative to Comet and Ajax. However, each technology has its own unique capabilities. Learn how these technologies vary so you can make the right choice.