Current Liferay poller implementation is AJAX based, it recusively fires send and receive ajax request.

This implementation uses node/sockjs to use HTML5 websockets for supported browsers and long polling for other browsers.

Liferay node poller consists a hook available in plugins sdk and a nodejs/sockjs server named as NodePoller.

• Install node.js

• Clone the repo:

  git clone git@github.com:saggiyogesh/liferay-node-poller.git
  

  or download the source.

• In NodePoller folder install the dependencies:

  npm install   
  

• Edit the Liferay server url in poller.properties

• Run nodejs server, listening on port 9999.

  node server 
  

• In portal-ext.properties file edit the NodePoller url.
• Deploy Liferay chat portlet from market place.
• Deploy 'liferay-node-poller-hook-6.1.1.1.war' available in dist folder of plugins sdk.

Note: Hook should be deployed at last.

Now Liferay is configured with Node poller.

To remove this, simply undeploy liferay-node-poller-hook from Update Manager in Liferay.