Spring 5.0 By Example

WebSockets

In the HTTP protocol, the communication supports full-duplex, which means the client and server can send data through the channel. The standard way to support this kind of communication is WebSockets. In this specification, both client and server can send data to each other in the persistent connection. Look at the following diagram:

As we can see, the data can be sent and received by the two actors, client, and server—this is how WebSockets works.

In our case, we do not need to send any data to the server during the connection. Because of this characteristic, we will choose SSE. We will learn about them in the following section. ...