Welcome to the Orbit Event Daemon Homepage
Orbited is an HTTP daemon that is optimized for long-lasting comet connections. It is designed to be easily integrated with new and existing applications. Orbited allows you to write real-time web applications, such as a chat room or instant messaging client, without using any external plugins like Flash or Java.
Examples of other applications that use comet-like technology are Meebo and Gmail’s embedded “talk” chatting functionality.
Latest News
3 Mar 2007
The Orbit Event Daemon 0.3.2 has been released under the MIT license as experimental software.
Simple
Orbited is designed to follow the database connector model of development, isolating developers from comet-specific details. Just import the simple client API to begin dispatching events from a server application to the browser.
Scalable
Orbited scales up. It's built on top of the lightning quick libevent I/O library. Orbited scales out. It uses the same architecture as memcached: each node is unaware of its peers allowing for share-nothing, linear scaling. And multiple nodes can fail without bringing down the system.
Cross-Platform
Orbited is written in Python and is based on the libevent wrapper known as pyevent. Python, libevent, and pyevent run on all major operating systems including Linux, Solaris, Windows, and OS X. Therefore Orbited can be deployed anywhere.
Open Source
Orbited is released under the permissive open-source MIT License, which allows anyone to use, modify, and redistribute the code. It can easily be integrated into both LAMP-stack web applications, and enterprise solutions, with client libraries for every major web programming language.