OpenShift PaaS gives developers the ability to try out new unsupported frameworks, programming languages, and servers. Today, while learning about WebSockets I learned that the current development version of Apache Tomcat i.e. version 8, has support for JSR356. JSR356 provides standard Java API for WebSockets. Although Apache Tomcat 7 provides support for WebSockets, it uses its own proprietary API. So, in order to test the JSR356 standard based WebSockets support in Apache Tomcat 8, I decided to give it a try. However, rather than installing Apache Tomcat 8 on my local development machine, I decided to install it on OpenShift.
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Shekhar Gulati 