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This JSR will define a standard API for creating WebSocket applications. There is a wide range of web applications that rely on timely updates from a central server like stock tickers, live maps, chat applications, collaborative online tools and multiplayer web-based games. WebSocket offers solution to the problems of latency, scalability and performance associated with HTTP based solutions like polling, long-polling and HTTP-streaming. There is a lot of interest in the Java developer community in creating web applications for the Java platform that utilize WebSocket. Given that the definition of WebSocket protocol is a proposed standard, and that the major web browsers either support, or plan to support it in their next major release, the time is right for a standard Java API for WebSocket.