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Monitoring a Connection status

— by João Batista on June 28, 2012

This is the third installment of a series of articles regarding an xRTML tag called connection. If this is your the first time hearing about the connection tag I suggest you start with those articles first: My first connection; Connection, a closer look. The connection tag features a set of events that allow the user to be updated of its status. These events range from its creation to its regular maintenance like being notified if there’s an exception.

Connection, a closer look

— by João Batista on March 29, 2012

As with other Realtime® technologies, an xRTML implementation requires a connection for the tags to be able to communicate between each other. But, beyond the scope of establishing connections, channels registration and authentication there are other relevant features that might be worth looking into as they can come in handy when developing your own xRTML application.

Showing Products Being Viewed in Real Time

— by Sérgio Costa on January 17, 2012

One of the coolest features being added to websites by our developers is the ability to display what other visitors are seeing. This is especially true when it comes to a news or e-commerce website, increasing the visibility of the most popular items.

In this post I will show you how to do this in less than 30 minutes by combining the Broadcast and the Repeater tags.

A Real Time Slideshow

— by Sérgio Costa on January 11, 2012

While browsing through the daily twittage and news, I stumbled upon a post about a push-based slideshow. I found the idea quite nice and decided to give it a go and see how fast we could do it using xRTML.

I definitely liked the result.

My first connection

— by João Batista on December 16, 2011

The xRTML framework, as mentioned throughout this website, sits on top of another layer called ORTC (Open RealTime Connectivity). This lower layer is the backbone of the Realtime framework acting as the medium by which the traffic of messages is done. xRTML being a part of this framework relies on it to successfully exchange messages between its tags.