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may i know to use websocket , need to write server code? in other words, javascript in my client application will need to connect to extra server rather than just my existing Apache server?

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You can download a solution from http://www.kaazing.com/download that let you start using Websockets today. There is also plenty of documentation to get you going here - http://tech.kaazing.com

Jonas
+2  A: 

The pywebsocket project adds experimental WebSocket support to Apache httpd.

It seems like an activly maintained project, and is even being used by the WebKit crew to test WebSocket support in their browser code.

Matt Quail
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Here is another web socket server based on node.js: websocket-server-node.js

Joseph Pecoraro
Here are three others that use node.js to provide server side WebSocket support:http://github.com/ncr/node.ws.jshttp://github.com/Guille/node.websocket.js/http://github.com/zimbatm/nodejs-http-websocket
Sembiance
+1  A: 

http://jwebsocket.googlecode.com is another one that lets you write WebSocket based server applications in java.

narup
+2  A: 

Facebook's tornado also recently added websockets

Alfred
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if you want something in .net then try

WebSocket Server

mamu
Nugget (http://nugget.codeplex.com/) appears to be the more up-to-date version of that code.
Troy
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For a WebSocket server written in PHP you should try WaterSpout server

Chris
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Is there any PHP server for WebSocket?

Afshin Mehrabani
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Yes, there is a php implementation on google code: project phpwebsocket

... and i have done a rewrite for more structured code:

http://bohuco.net/blog/2010/07/html5-websockets-example/

DerFichtl
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how about a c# server for webscoket?

oops nevermind. found it.

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