Today I'm pleased to announce the release of WebSync 3.5, which adds full support for Java-based clients, which means we now have native support for Android and Blackberry!

Previously, WebSync was a real-time communications platform for .NET and the browser. With this release, we now have full native support for the full line of most popular smartphones and mobile devices - iPhones, iPads, Android phones, Android tablets, and Blackberry devices too!

We've done our best to keep the APIs between the various languages as consistent as possible, so the learning curve is absolutely minimal.

We've also added (as usual) a few little performance improvements, and in a couple places, better error handling.

So what are you waiting for? Go get the latest copy, or point your script to client.ashx?v=3.5.0!

Hey everyone!

Good news! We've just released WebSync 3.4.2! As always, you can check out the changelog, but the items of note are:

• better support for transferring of in-memory cache between overlapped worker processes, to avoid clients getting inadvertently idled out when the application pool resets and reduce the load on the database for SQL providers
• performance improvements for iOS and JavaScript JSON parsing
• support for changes to the system clock
• performance improvements to the SQL provider
• fix for the notorious IE "c00c023f" error
• fixed memory leak in the JSON parser

So, overall, pretty awesome release, if I do say so myself!

As always, you can grab a new copy of WebSync Server from our downloads page, and for the On-Demand customers, simply point your script to ?v=3.4.2!

Happy New Year! A new release of WebSync is out! This is basically a patch release, fixing a bunch of minor issues in the 3.3 branch.

Feel free to check out the changelog, download a new trial, update your purchase, or use the latest On-Demand code by pointing your script tag to ?v=3.3.2.

Happy Coding!

Hey everyone!

We have a new release of WebSync, version 3.2. This is an awesome release, as it adds a bunch of new features and gives a dramatic boost in performance.

Here's the quick summary; for a detailed list, check out the changelog.

• Improved connection management in the .NET client, including enforced timeouts to ensure connections are destroyed no matter what after a specified period of time
• Shutdown management so WebSync shuts down quickly and gracefully when reset
• Improved error handling on initial load, including detection of invalid method signatures for event handlers
• Improved Azure support via the stateless SQL provider
• Improved documentation to work via the file system in IE
• Huge performance improvement with respect to message throughput

The biggest change is the performance improvement. Previously, WebSync was able to deliver upwards of 30,000 messages a second. With WebSync 3.2, it's now capable of delivering over 100,000 messages per second!

As always, for those of you using On-Demand, simply adjust your client script to point to client.js?v=3.2.0, and you'll get all the latest changes. For those of you using WebSync Server, check out the Portal and download the latest copy from your Order History.

Happy coding!

We are pleased to announce that after many internal revisions and much hard work, version 2.3 of WebSync Server and WebSync On-Demand has been released. The list of changes is extensive. Here are the highlights:

• Server performance has been improved. We have tested over 30,000 actively communicating clients on a single channel on a single server.
• Reorganized and updated documentation. It should be more intuitive to navigate and understand. (No more synchronous/asynchronous tech-speak.)
• .NET and PHP proxy support for pre-processing client requests. Allows custom server-side application logic. Check out the documentation for more details.
• Support for extra data in messages. Authentication and other security features should be easier to implement now if sessions are not available.
• Improved JavaScript support. Browser support is very extensive, going back to earlier revisions further than we can test. Browsers will automatically take advantage of new HTML5 features for improved performance as they become available.
• Enhanced .NET and PHP core downloads. Clients and publishers should see faster communication.

A very big thanks to all the feedback we have received, both positive and negative. You are the most important part of this, and we are always listening to what you have to say.

A Visual Studio plug-in is on the way for WebSync Server customers. Watch for it!