server to client push notification?

Question

I need a solution for a specific feature of my application ,feature is same as recent achievements category of stack overflow.When a specific event happen in server (may be some level achievement or some kind of condition satisfy)then i want to notify to user through the GUI of my application ,What is the best approach to do this specif use case .thanks in adnvance

Have a look at http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/ and http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/websockets/basics/ — Ravindra babu, Oct 13 '15 at 14:25

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 13 '15 at 09:27

You'll either want to use WebSockets or clientside polling.

There's a few java libraries out there to help abstract you from the underlying mechanics which can fallback to polling if websockets are not supported by the browser:

Im sure there's more but that'll get you started :)

server to client push notification?

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