Just a quick note to let you know that we’ve released a latency testing and graphing application. It’s an Edgynet sub-project, which we’re calling Stopwatch, or Edgynet Stopwatch. You can find it at http://stopwatch.edgynet.com:
Currently it supports testing of two browser-to-server communication mechanisms:
- Comet – using cometd-jquery on the client-side and our own server-side Bayeux implemenation
- TCP – via a hidden Java Applet
We’ll talk more about the Stopwatch application, and how we’re using it, in the coming days.
We expect to integrate the Java Applet from this application into the Edgynet system over the next week. It will be available as an alternative connection option – Comet will remain the default. Hopefully, this will offer a solution to the latency problem experienced by those connecting to our service from outside of Europe, and those connecting over 3G.
The graphs in Edgynet Stopwatch are generated using the Google Chart API. So thanks to Google for that.
