The document summarizes a presentation by Kevin Nilson and Michael Carter about comet technologies. Kevin and Michael previously worked on Confetto, a comet application used at conferences. Michael is currently working on a new comet protocol called Comet Session that Kevin plans to help implement in Java. The presentation agenda includes an overview of comet, obstacles in implementing comet, introductions to CometD and Atmosphere (Java), and Orbited. Michael will discuss the Comet Session protocol. Kevin will cover practical CometD application development.

1. Comet TrendsBy: Kevin Nilson & Michael Carter

2. About the SpeakersKevin and Michael worked together on Confetto which was used last year at Code Camp and Devoxx. Confetto is a real time Comet Application used at conferences to allow attendees to ask questions, vote on which question to answer next, and to chat with other attendees.Michael is currently working on a new protocol for Comet called “Comet Session”, that Kevin is planning to help write the Java implementation for.

3. About Kevin NilsonKevin Nilson is currently a Principal Software Architect for a Large Financial Firm in Silicon Valley. He is the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG. He is also the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group and Assistant Organizer of the Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup. Prior to his current work, Kevin had extensive industry software engineering and consulting experience with companies such as: Pfizer, Northrop Grumman, and AT&T Corporation. He also worked part-time as an adjunct professor at the College of San Mateo. He is also a core contributer for confetto.org, a web based real-time open source conference collaboration tool used at conferences such as: Silicon Valley Code Camp and Devoxx. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer.

4. About Michael CarterMichael Carter is an expert on highly scalable, real-time web application architectures. He is an officially recognized contributor to the W3C HTML5 specification, particularly for his work with the WebSocket proposal. He is the founder and lead of the Orbited project (http://www.orbited.org), an MIT licensed Comet server built for high-performance browser networking. He is currently a freelance consultant and technical lead for OSSLine (www.ossline.org), a Silicon Valley non-profit that provides technical and legal infrastructure to a host of Open Source projects, including Orbited, the browser network protocols projectjs.io(http://js.io), and the python message queue MorbidQ (http://www.morbidq.com). Michael also writes network games as the CTO for the mobile games company Xio Interactive (http://xiointeractive.com).

5. AgendaComet background (Kevin)What is comet, History, ImplementationsObstacles implementing Comet (Michael)Browsers, Usability, Intermediary, Failure, LibraryInto to CometD and Atmosphere (Java) (Kevin)Intro to Orbited (Michael)Practical CometD Application Development (Kevin)Comet Session Protocol (Michael)http://orbited.org/blog/files/csp.htmlProblem, Server-side, Client-side, Implementations

6. Upcoming EventsPanel on Comet (Silicon Valley Web Builder)princecomet.eventbrite.com (please register)Panel moderated by Kevin Nilson about CometMichael Carter will be panelist along with Alex Russell, Ted Goddard, Greg Wilkins, Dylan SchiemannGoogle, 10/21/2008 Wed 6:00-9:00pmScallingCometD to the Masses (Devoxx, Antwerp Belgium)Kevin Nilson will be presentingBejing China (Details not finalized, December 2009)Kevin Nilson will be presenting

7. ThankyouJavaClimber.com (Kevin’s Homepage)Orbited.orgCometDaily.comCometD.orgatmosphere.dev.java.nethttp://js.iohttp://orbited.org/svn/csp/trunk