Code Camp is not just for geeks, hackers, and code monkeys; and while you may find some of them at Cal State Fullerton on January 26 and 27, Code Camp is first and foremost a place for software developers to come together, share ideas and experiences, and learn from their peers.
This will be the 3rd time for me, driving up to Cal State Fullerton, and for the 3rd time, I have been given the early morning spot for my talk. Now, like probably most participants, I would not consider myself a morning person - still, I'm confident that this topic will fill a room: Turning the Web on its head - let's have the server call the client.

We will take the accepted view that a Web-Client calls (via HTTP GET or POST) a server and turn it on its head. Let's have the server call the client. It is really not that far fetched, to imaging a scenario where the server, when it has determined that something exciting just happened (e.g., the Dow Jones Industrial Avg. Index jumped 100 points) calls the Web Client, instead of clients constantly polling the server (even when the DOW barely moves).

Sounds interesting and a couple of implementation ideas may come to mind. After looking briefly into some xml and binary web service protocols, we will take a closer look at the notification mechanism, provided by Java's management extensions and eventually take a really close look at a full featured implementation of the above mentioned problem.
Interestingly, even when looking at both, the client and the server part of this solution, there isn't really all that much code to write, which means that even in the little time we have, all the concept and patterns used, can be looked at and discussed. Honestly, all the code, (client and server) that makes this 'Stock Quote Client' an event-consumer, instead of a stupid poller, will be shown.

• CodeCamp - Fullerton 2008
• Wolf Paulus: Turning the Web on its head - let's have the server call the client
• Saturday, January 2008
• Cal State Fullerton, Room UH335, 8:45 AM