Java Websocket Framework

What is Bristleback?

Bristleback is a modern, complete WebSocket framework written in Java and JavaScript, powered by Spring Framework. The main goal of Bristleback is to bring creation of WebSocket applications into higher level of abstraction. Using Bristleback, you can forget about connection mechanism details and focus on your business logic only. With Bristleback, you will be pleasantly surprised how WebSocket technology becomes easy to use and productive. Bristleback framework consists of two parts:

WebSocket Server - written in Java, using several leading WebSocket protocol engines
WebSocket Client - written in JavaScript (Android client planned for next release)

Yet, while being high productivity framework, Bristleback still offers high performance results, which is achieved by caching meta information and using stable external WebSocket protocol libraries.

Main features:

Ability to create web and standalone applications
Jetty, Netty and Tomcat WebSocket engines support
Avoiding low level connection details, operating on high level abstractions
Object serialization working out of the box
Integrated with Spring Framework and Maven
Easy to use, convention over configuration

Find out more!

Try our samples!
Create Your first Bristleback application
Check Bristleback documentation and tutorials

See Bristleback in Action!

Start using Bristleback in just three steps:

1. Type following command in your console:


      mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://bristleback.pl/archetype/archetype-catalog.xml -DarchetypeGroupId=pl.bristleback -DarchetypeArtifactId=webapp-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=0.3.0

and enter additional information about the project.

2. Navigate to the project directory and type:


          mvn jetty:run

your first Bristleback Server with Jetty as Server Engine is starting!

3. Open your browser and type http://localhost:8080.

Have fun!

Bristleback is already on Maven repository:


      <dependency> 

         <groupId>pl.bristleback</groupid> 

         <artifactId>bristleback-core</artifactid> 

         <version>0.3.0</version> 

      </dependency>

For client sources, please visit project download section.

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