It is based around a publish subscribe paradigm. A web client want to display a special set of data. If that data changes, the client want to get informed about that changes.
The project currently supports two protocols. The first is Bayeux, a protocol mainly used by the cometd project and pubsub/http an own protocol under development. The main difference between Bayeux and pubsub/http is, that Bayeux focuses on publishing messages, while pubsub/http is developed with communication object states in mind.
On the server side, a binding for C++ exists and a binding for Ruby/Rack (that makes it's easy to use it with Rails).
- Rake is used as build system
- boost (1.57.)
- cometd client library (only for Bayeux protocol needed)
- jQuery
- node.js (for Testing the CoffeeScript pubsub/http client)
Currently this isn't an "out of the box" product. I've build the project under OS X and Linux. To get an overview, checkout the source and use rake docu to build doxygen documentation. rake -T gives an overview of the available build targets. If you need help, send me a message.
Have a look at /source/tests/chat.cpp as a C++ chat example and /source/tests/rack_chat.rb for the same in ruby.
Sioux is licensed under MIT Licence.