From the course: WebSocket Programming with Java EE
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WebSocket usage
- [Instructor] The WebSocket protocol is used to enhance the experience of using websites, such as chat applications, collaboration, games, and immediate push updates. But the web is not the only use of WebSocket. It is commonly used to allow microservices to communicate with each other and a variety of machine-to-machine communications. Let's have a look at some of these common usages. So what are the used cases for the WebSocket protocol? Apart from those already discussed, and many new and fun uses have already been found for this technology. They include activities like telemetry data streams, financial exchanges provide a view into their data, often via website, but also in desktop applications, and nearly all of the exchanges offering this service use WebSocket protocol to provide the live financial data streams. Almost everything you see that has a live data element to it is transported over the WebSocket protocol. So the change in data that traders see in the graphs are…
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