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Table B-2. ( continued )

Library/Tool Description Where you can get it Used in Chapters

http://npmjs.org Node Package

Manager (npm)

A Node.js package manager,
allowing easy installation of
Node.js packages.

None (included
in the VM)

http://strophe.im/
strophejs

Strophe.js An open source XMPP library

for JavaScript, originally
created by Jeff Moffitt.

4

http://virtualbox.
org

VirtualBox An open source virtualization

product supporting
Windows, Mac, Linux, and
Solaris as the host operating
system, and a significantly
larger number of guest
operating systems.

None (used to
start the VM)

WebSocket Servers
While you can enable a server to accept WebSocket connections or indeed write your
own WebSocket server, there are a few existing implementations that might make your
life easier when developing your own WebSocket applications. At the time this topic was
written, the following are some of the WebSocket servers that are available (list provided
by http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/html5-websocket ):

http://alchemywebsockets.net/ • Alchemy-Websockets (.NET):

http://activemq.apache.org/ • Apache ActiveMQ:

http://github.com/
disconnect/apache-websocket#readme

• apache-websocket (Apache module):

http://www.ape-project.org/ • APE Project (C):

http://autobahn.ws/ • Autobahn (virtual appliance):

http://www.caucho.com/ • Caucho Resin (Java):

http://github.com/extend/cowboy

• Cowboy:

http://cramp.in/ • Cramp (Ruby):

http://www.pushtechnology. • Diffusion (Commercial product):

com/home

http://github.com/igrigorik/ • EM-WebSocket (Ruby):

em-websocket

http://github.com/
wkjagt/Extendible-Web-Socket-Server

• Extendible WebSocket Server (PHP):