Vert.x Java Realtime Server Client communication

Question

I want to develop a client server application with the following needs:

• The server offers a small REST interface
• The server offers a websocket or something like that where
  • multiple users can subscribe to a topic and get events from the server.
  • the server should also be able to receive events back from the clients.

Most of this is kind of covered by the Vert.x Real-time bidding example. My only problem is that this example and all the others I found use a SockJS handler and have a Javascript client. However, I have a Java client and want to do exactly the same (plus the talk back from client to server part).

Does anyone know a good example showing this use-case or can anyone write down a short example?

Answer 1

For your use case, you can start the TCP event bus bridge instead of the SockJS one. And to avoid creating your own TCP messages, have a look at this TCP bridge Java Client.