- The document discusses the Atmosphere Framework, an open-source Java library that allows web applications to communicate in real-time via WebSocket or Comet techniques. - It provides a uniform API that hides the complexities of different browser and server WebSocket implementations and allows fallback to alternative techniques like Comet. - The framework integrates with various Java web servers
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