Asynchronous web service streaming

Question

I need some framework that will help me to do asynchronous streaming over http. It may look like SOAP WS or somethign else. I don\'t know if I name it correctly, so here is

Answer 1

What you're talking about sounds like a COMET service. You can read the Wikipedia entry here:

Comet (programming)

Not sure how you'd implement something like that in Java, but in .NET you can use a Duplex contract for a WCF service. You can read more about how to access and communicate with that style of service here:

How to: Access Services with a Duplex Contract