How to send push notifications from a Java Servlet for web application?

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In my application I have to show a notification on a particular action taken place?

I have to show logged in user a notification then.

One way to get notifications is to keep polling after certain time interval. that is pull notification. But this causes unnecessary hits to server.

How can I use push notifications from server? I am using Java Servlets and JSP with Tomcat.

Take a look at WebSockets: stackoverflow.com/questions/2190500/… — user1907906
– user1907906, Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 8:27
You can take a look at HTML5 SSE (w3schools.com/html/html5_serversentevents.asp ) Not sure if this will solve your problem. It's basically polling, but you don't need to do it. The browser does it. — varun1505
– varun1505, Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 8:28

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:54:56Z

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Nowadays a promising way of client-server communication is to use Websockets.

See What are Long-Polling, Websockets, Server-Sent Events (SSE) and Comet to see some other ways together with the Websockets and for an advantages of Websockets with an introduction see An Introduction To WebSockets

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Bhushan Bhangale · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-15 08:30:44Z

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You can use WebSockets for this purpose. There are multiple implementations available like jwebsocket.

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user2256686 · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-15 08:34:11Z

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Take a look at the Comet model and Servlet 3.0 specification.

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:31:19Z

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You can try Servlet3.0 Async functionality.

Here is an Chat example which does push : Servlet 3.0 Async Example

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