Systems and methods for asynchronous notification using http

摘要

Methods and apparatus for asynchronous notification using HTTP. An application server configured to host one or more web applications and process HTTP requests associated with the one or more web applications includes a long polling mechanism configured to maintain an open HTTP connection, and a notification server configured to provide an asynchronous notification to one or more notification clients through the open HTTP connection, wherein the notification includes an identifier for the one or more notification clients with no application data payload.