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Sandy
Sandy

Reputation: 507

Difference between websocket and vertx

I've been recently learning about vertx and websocket. What I understood that you can have real-time application using them, but I didn't understand the difference between them A websocket lets you push messages from server to client and vice-versa, encouraging the publish-subscribe methodology. Then what is vertx doing? It acts as an event bus and also encourages publish-subscribe model.

I can be completely wrong in my analysis, hence please correct me and I'll be glad. thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 671

Answers (1)

Alexey Soshin
Alexey Soshin

Reputation: 17731

WebSockets is a stateful protocol, usually used to communicate between clients and servers.

Vert.x is a server-side framework, which has a very good support for WebSockets.

You don't have to use WebSockets with Vert.x. But if you do want to use WebSockets, Vert.x is a great option.

Here's an article I wrote a few months ago about both:

https://medium.com/@alexey.soshin/playing-ping-pong-over-websockets-with-vert-x-447c634c6c87

Upvotes: 2

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