This project is an open-source Java implementation of Socket.IO server. Based on Netty server framework.
Checkout Demo project
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
- Supports 0.7...0.9.16 (netty-socketio 1.6.6) and 1.0+ (netty-socketio latest version) version of Socket.IO-client
- Supports xhr-polling transport
- Supports websocket transport
- Supports namespaces and rooms
- Supports ack (acknowledgment of received data)
- Supports SSL
- Supports client store (Memory, Redisson, Hazelcast)
- Supports distributed broadcast across netty-socketio nodes (Redisson, Hazelcast)
- Supports OSGi
- Supports Spring
- Lock-free and thread-safe implementation
- Declarative handler configuration via annotations
Customer feedback in 2012:
CentOS, 1 CPU, 4GB RAM runned on VM:
CPU 10%, Memory 15%
6000 xhr-long polling sessions or 15000 websockets sessions
4000 messages per second
Customer feedback in 2014:
"To stress test the solution we run 30 000 simultaneous websocket clients and managed to peak at total of about 140 000 messages per second with less than 1 second average delay." (c) Viktor Endersz - Kambi Sports Solutions
AVOS Cloud: avoscloud.com
Bingo Crack: bingocrack.com
Kambi Sports Solutions: kambi.com
ARSnova: arsnova.eu
Zipwhip: zipwhip.com
Feature - Added option to change the SSL KeyFactoryAlgorithm using Configuration (thanks to @robymus)
Improvement - Binary ack handling improvements (thanks to Sergey Bushik)
Fixed - Failed to mark a promise as success because it has succeeded already (thanks to @robymus)
Feature - SocketIOServer.removeAllListeners method added
Feature - BroadcastOperations.sendEvent method with excludedClient param added
Improvement - Redisson updated to 2.4.0
Fixed - memory leak in Namespace object (thanks to @CrazyIvan007)
Fixed - Throw error if transport not supported
Fixed - Client disconnecting when using Polling - IndexOutOfBoundsException
Fixed - netty updated to 4.1.0.CR3 version
Fixed - binary packet parsing (thanks to Winston Li)
Feature - Compression support
Fixed - DotNET client request handling
Fixed - Packet length format parsing
Fixed - skipping 'd=' in packet
Fixed - Polling clients sporatically get prematurely disconnected (thanks to lpage30)
Fixed - connections stay open forever if server sent close packet
Fixed - compatibility with Redisson latest version
Improvement - WebSocketServerHandshaker.allowExtensions is true now
Improvement - SessionID cookie implementation (thanks to @ryandietrich)
Fixed - clientRooms leak (thanks to @andreaspalm)
Fixed - ExceptionListener not used for errors in JSON parsing
Fixed - "silent channel" attack
Improvement - useStrictOrdering param added for websocket packets strict ordering
Improvement - FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS = false option setted in json decoder
Improvement - no need to add jackson lib if you use own JsonSupport impl
Fixed - SocketIO client 1.3.x support
Fixed - Charset encoding handling (thanks to alim-akbashev)
Improvement - SocketIONamespace.getName() added
Fixed - WebSocket frames aggregation
Fixed - WebSocket buffer release
Fixed - Unexpected end-of-input in VALUE_STRING error
Fixed - Access-Control-Allow-Credentials is TRUE for requests with origin header
Feature - Configuration.sslProtocol param added
Fixed - BinaryEvent ack handling
Fixed - BinaryEvent non b64 encoding/decoding
Fixed - buffer leak during packet encoding
Fixed - packet encoding
Fixed - BinaryEvent encoding/decoding
Fixed - unchallenged connections handling
Feature - origin setting added
Feature - crossDomainPolicy setting added
Feature - SocketIOServer.startAsync method added
Feature - Epoll support
Improvement - BinaryEvent support
Fixed - SocketIOClient disconnect handling
Fixed - broadcast callback
Fixed - NPE then no transport defined during auth
Fixed - ping timeout for polling transport
Fixed - buffer leak in PacketEncoder
Fixed - wrong outgoing message encoding using websocket transport
Fixed - NPE in websocket transport
Fixed - multiple packet decoding in polling transport
Fixed - buffer leak
Feature - ability to set custom Access-Control-Allow-Origin via Configuration.origin
Fixed - connection via CLI socket.io-client
Feature - Socket.IO 1.0 protocol support. Thanks to the new protocol decoding/encoding has speedup
Dropped - SocketIOClient.sendMessage, SocketIOClient.sendJsonObject methods and corresponding listeners
Dropped - Flashsocket transport support
Dropped - protocol version 0.7 ... 0.9.16
Improvement - single packet encoding optimized, used mostly in WebSocket transport. Encoding time reduced up to 40% (thanks to Viktor Endersz)
Improvement - rooms handling optimized
Improvement - ExceptionListener.exceptionCaught method added
Breaking api change - Configuration.autoAck replaced with ackMode
Feature - trustStore setting added
Feature - maxFramePayloadLength setting added
Feature - getAllClients and getClient methods added to SocketIONamespace
Fixed - SocketIOServer.getAllClients returns wrong clients amount
Fixed - message release problem
Fixed - problem with exception listener configuration redefinition
Breaking api change - DataListener.onData now throws Exception
Improvement - data parameter added to exception listener
Improvement - ability to setup socket configuration
Improvement - Configuration.autoAck parameter added
Fixed - AckCallback handling during client disconnect
Fixed - unauthorized handshake HTTP code changed to 401
Breaking api change - Configuration.heartbeatThreadPoolSize setting removed
Feature - annotated Spring beans support via SpringAnnotationScanner
Feature - common exception listener
Improvement - ScheduledExecutorService replaced with HashedWheelTimer
Fixed - wrong namespace client disconnect handling
Fixed - exception in onConnect/onDisconnect/isAuthorized methods leads to server hang
Breaking api change - SocketIOClient.sendEvent methods signature changed
Improvement - multi type events support via MultiTypeEventListener and OnEvent annotation
Improvement - multi type events ack support via MultiTypeAckCallback
Improvement - SocketIOClient.getHandshakeData method added
Improvement - Jedis replaced with Redisson
Fixed - JDK 1.6+ compatibility
Feature - authorization support
Fixed - XHR-pooling transport regression
Fixed - Websocket transport regression
Fixed - namespace NPE in PacketHandler
Fixed - executors shutdown during server stop
Feature - client store (Memory, Redis, Hazelcast) support
Feature - distributed broadcast across netty-socketio nodes (Redis, Hazelcast) support
Feature - OSGi support (thanks to rdevera)
Improvement - XHR-pooling optimization
Improvement - SocketIOClient.getAllRooms method added
Fixed - flash policy "request leak" after page reload (thanks to ntrp)
Fixed - websocket swf loading (thanks to ntrp)
Fixed - wrong urls causes a potential DDoS
Fixed - Event.class package visibility changed to avoid direct usage
Improvement - Simplified Jackson modules registration
Fixed - NPE during shutdown
Improvement - isEmpty method added to Namespace
Fixed - wrong ack timeout callback invocation
Fixed - bigdecimal serialization for JSON
Fixed - infinity loop during packet handling exception
Fixed - 'client not found' handling
Improvement - encoding buffers allocation optimization.
Improvement - encoding buffers now pooled in memory to reduce GC pressure (netty 4.x feature).
Fixed - error on unknown property during deserialization.
Fixed - memory leak in long polling transport.
Improvement - logging error info with inbound data.
First stable release.
Include the following to your dependency list:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.corundumstudio.socketio</groupId>
<artifactId>netty-socketio</artifactId>
<version>1.7.12</version>
</dependency>
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