Spring supports STOMP over WebSocket but the use of a subprotocol is not mandatory, you can deal with the raw websocket. When using a raw websocket, the message sent lacks of information to make Spring route it to a specific message handler method (we don’t have any messaging protocol), so instead of annotating your controller, … Read more
Current Situation UPDATE 2016-12-13 : the issue referenced below is now marked fixed, so the hack below is no longer necessary which Spring 4.3.5 or above. See https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/master/src/docs/asciidoc/web/websocket.adoc#token-authentication. Previous Situation Currently (Sep 2016), this is not supported by Spring except via query parameter as answered by @rossen-stoyanchev, who wrote a lot (all?) of the Spring … Read more
Getting the ball rolling with this community wiki answer. Feel free to edit me with your improvements. ws WebSocket server and client for node.js. One of the fastest libraries if not the fastest one. websocket-node WebSocket server and client for node.js websocket-driver-node WebSocket server and client protocol parser node.js – used in faye-websocket-node faye-websocket-node WebSocket … Read more