Lightstreamer Goes All In with bwin.party

We are thrilled to announce that the Lightstreamer technology has been selected by bwin.party to power its world-class gaming and betting platforms.

According to their public statements, the Group has generated pro-forma net revenues in 2011 of €816.0m and commands leading market positions in four product verticals: online sports betting, poker, casino, and bingo, with some of the world’s biggest online gaming brands including bwin, PartyPoker, PartyCasino and Foxy Bingo with proprietary gaming platforms.

How to Upgrade to Web Client Library 6 and Later

Lightstreamer JavaScript client version 6 brings some new interesting features and some long-awaited changes. This time we’ve chosen not to pass from the deprecate-first remove-then path as we’ve always done: in fact the entire API was completely designed from scratch to be more flexible and easy to use. Unfortunately, this also means that some effort is necessary to migrate your code based on Lightstreamer HTML Client 4 or 5 to the new Lightstreamer JavaScript Client 6 and later.
This guide was written to help you with the migration. Only the simplest way to do the porting is illustrated; it is obviously possible to use more complicated techniques. Also following only the guide you will not exploit many of the new capabilities of the library, so, before doing the porting I suggest you to check the changelog, the new Development Guide and the Tutorial.

Dynamic Bandwidth and Frequency Management

If you have been knowing Lightstreamer for a long time, you appreciate that it has always been particularly good at managing the bandwidth used by the stream connection and the individual update rate of each subscription.

In addition to heuristically spot network congestions and adapting the data flow automatically, Lightstreamer has always offered an API call to dynamically change the maximum bandwidth granted to a given stream session.

The good news is that now both Lightstreamer 4.1 and 5.0 allow you to change the maximum frequency granted to each individual subscription on the fly.

Meet Our Partners - Markets Pulse

A short interview with Ravit Friedberg, Product Manager of Markets Pulse, an Enterprise Binary Option technology provider for online trading companies.
 
Let’s talk about your organization. What is your core business?

"Markets Pulse provides financial companies with advanced binary options technology, offering a great addition to any online trading platform. The offering includes easy-to-integrate back office and technologically advanced front-end trading platforms. The technology is installed completely on-site, providing confidentiality of data and a customizable trading experience. Working with regulated companies such as FxTrade Financial and Gallant Capital Markets, the technology is also ready for regulation".

Meet Our Customers: CanDeal.Ca

A short interview with Joe D'Alessandro, CTO of CanDeal.Ca, the leading electronic marketplace for Canadian dollar debt securities.
  
Let’s talk about your organization. What is your core business?

"CanDeal provides institutional market participants with an electronic marketplace for Canadian dollar debt securities. Currently we operate in Canada, US and Europe with 200+ Institutional investors and 13 investment dealers".

Lightstreamer in a PhoneGap app

[UPDATE 2014]The original hello world application was simplified by the PhoneGap team. We adapted our own demo to be as close as possible to the original one. As a result some of the descriptions of this article are a bit outdated. Most of it is still valid though, so you can safely go on reading.[/UPDATE]

As a JavaScript guy and mostly-OS-agnostic kind of person I wait for the day when I will be able to fully exploit the power of ApplicationCache and other new JS APIs such as GeoLocation and IndexedDB, to install the same web application and have the same OS-integrated experience on my Windows notebook, my Sabayon box or on my Android Smartphone. Not to mention the pleasure of sharing the exact same app with my iOS, Windows Phone or Tizen oriented friends.

Also, as a developer, not having to develop a native application per each OS out there would be a big plus.

Lightstreamer 5.0 Colosseo is now available!

We are very thrilled to announce that the final release of Lightstreamer 5.0, codename Colosseo, is now generally available for download.

Lightstreamer 5.0 includes full support for WebSockets, a brand new JavaScript client API, impressive performance boost, and many new features.

Meet our Customers: FINODEX BV

A short interview with Herbert Robijn, Founder and Managing Director of FINODEX, a Dutch company that builds investment tools.
  
Let’s talk about your organization. What is your core business?

"Web-based investment tools for equities, options, and leveraged products (e.g. Turbo's)". 

Who is the typical user of your product or service?

"B2B: banks, brokers and financial portals who provide our tools white labeled to their retail clients. B2C: we sell our tools via direct channel".

Start Me Up!

No, we are not talking about the old, amazing Rolling Stones Song. We are just enthusiastic to introduce the Startup Program, a way Weswit can provide promising new businesses with Lightstreamer technology at an exceptionally generous rate.

We are more than sure that smart tools are mandatory requirements to transform a good idea into a great success. Many promising start-ups need real-time data streaming for their ideas to take off, but they simply can't afford the additional investment in the early stages. We think that if some companies are given the chance to thrive, we can thrive with them: that's why we decided to offer Lightstreamer only to a few, valuable start-ups every year.

Weswit Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm for its Lightstreamer Product

Cool Vendor Report 2012 Cites Weswit, with its Lightstreamer Product, as Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing in the Area of Application and Integration Platforms.

Weswit is proud to announce that it has been recognized by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor in Application and Integration Platforms" in the report published on April 11, 2012 (i).

Lightstreamer 5.0 Preview Release Available

We are very excited to announce that an early-availability release of next generation Lightstreamer is now publicly available for download: Lightstreamer 5.0, codename Colosseo.

Lightstreamer includes now full support for WebSockets, the new Web standard from IETF that enables bi-directional, full-duplex communication over the Web. Even if WebSockets are not yet universally supported by browsers and network infrastructure, Lightstreamer is able to automatically choose the best transport, among the many available, based on the characteristics of each client. The Stream-Sense algorithm of Lightstreamer will make sure that the real-time data will travel to and from any possible client, connected through any existing proxies and firewalls.

Lightstreamer 4.0.3 Released

A patch release of Lightstreamer 4, codename Duomo, is now generally available for download.

Lightstreamer Server v. 4.0.3 build 1513.1.11 contains some fixes that solve potential issues with polling mode.

In particular, with previous versions (from 4.0 to 4.0.2) under some circumstances, polling cycles might be more frequent than needed or return less updates than requested.



NASA Apps for Android and iOS Released

Android screenshot

We are very happy to see that the ISSLive native applications, for both Android and iOS (iPhone and iPad), have been publicly released by NASA.

ISSLive uses Lightstreamer on all the three channels currently available (HTML, native Android, and native iOS) to stream live data from the International Space Station. Real-time updates coming from the ISS onboard systems are displayed within visual consoles.

Proud to Be a Component of the Eco-District Technology Environment

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An Eco-District is a small-scale area such as a neighborhood or a district with a community commitment to achieving neighborhood-scale sustainability. Smart Grid is one of the key features included.

The Smart Grid is a vision of the future electricity delivery infrastructure that improves network efficiency and resilience, while empowering consumers and addressing energy sustainability concerns. To make the grid "smarter," and capable of addressing the need to decarbonize generation sources and enable end-user energy efficiency, utilities will have to improve observability and controllability of their networks, while transforming them into geodesic structures that intersperse a variety of distributed energy resources – some owned and operated by consumers.

Social Gaming is Here to Stay

In 2011, Buzz All Stars moved to Silicon Valley with a simple vision. Sport is Social (TM) and fans watching Live Sports want Match Tracking Game Play in a Social TV environment on their Second Screen and Smart TV devices.

This is the statement that appears on the home page of buzzallstars.com, a Silicon Valley company that is innovating the way live sports events can be enjoyed.

Happy Technology from Lightstreamer!

Weswit Srl, the maker of Lightstreamer, would like to wish you happiness and great technological choices for this end of year and the beginning of 2012!

As you probably know, Lightstreamer is the leading technology for exchanging low-latency real-time data over the Web. You take care of your application, we take care of efficient and reliable data delivery, whatever platforms you are using on the server side (Java, .NET, etc.) and on the client side (web browsers, native mobile apps, or whatever).

More and more finance, aerospace, gaming,  and other types of companies are taking benefit from the real-time communication capabilities of Lightstreamer, moving toward the True Real-Time Web.

Expect many exciting news in the course of 2012 as for Weswit's product offering!

Cheers,

The Lightstreamer Team

Lightstreamer 4.0.2 Released

An update to Lightstreamer software is available for download.

Lightstreamer Server v. 4.0.2 contains a fix that solves a potential issue with polling mode and older browsers.

Other minor changes to Lightstreamer Server and to some client libraries are included, as explained in the detailed changelog.

Our engineering team is currently working hard on the new release of Lightstreamer software, which will include several new and exciting features... (More on this later).

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We are rolling out a new Lightstreamer banner :)

 

NASA and Lightstreamer for Project Morpheus

NASA's Undergraduate Student Research Program site recently published an interesting paper by Matthew Noyes and Robert Hirsh: Rendering Flight Telemetry in Platform-Independent Three-Dimensional Touch-Interactive Simulations (PDF download).

The paper describes an innovative project where Lightstreamer is used for pushing spacecraft telemetry data to tablet devices, which render a 3D representation of the vehicle in real time.

Real-Time Forever...

With refreshed minds and bodies after summer vacation, the Lightstreamer team is working hard on several new exciting ideas. Lightstreamer will keep shaping the future of the real-time Web :-)

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