Contributing to Orbited

For I while I've been getting myself involved in Orbited, a " HTTP daemon that is optimized for long-lasting comet connections. It is designed to be easily integrated with new and existing applications. Orbited allows you to write real-time web applications, such as a chat room or instant messaging client, without using any external plugins like Flash or Java."

It's a great piece of software to work with as it allows web users to connect to TCP services, such as IRC servers, telnet, sockets, pretty much anything you can think of.

I am basing my new application for my chat project on it and so far it's great. The only downside isn't really any good performance measurements for it - yet. I am working with Orbited developers and a stress test analysis company to perform such measurements. Updates will follow...