Investigate websocket support about helidon HOT 7 CLOSED

@eduvim Please see #927. There's already a simple prototype that integrates with Helidon SE. We are targeting this work for Helidon 2.0. I'm going to close this issue so that we can continue discussion over there.

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See also #143

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Could this be via WebSocket 1.1 Spec (JSR356) APIs? I know you're not trying to write the next JEE container here but I'll make porting code to Helidon easier.

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Just as we did for REST in MP using JAX-RS, we should consider JSR356 for WS. I agree that it would help migration to Helidon MP.

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WebSockets would definitely help in use cases that require a server push. With the current Helidon infra, I guess the max one can achieve is a SSE with a long running Handler. But a WebSocket protocol support within Helidon would definitely help us avoid a parallel stack like Node just for the push capability.

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Any update on this?

I've had a look into this and it looks like both a 'native' API as well as a JSR356 implementation would be needed especially if reusing the Netty implementation of websockets as it's somewhat buried under Server[Request|Response] and Bare[Request|Response].

I'm tempted to have a bash at it so any guidance on style?

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I would like to help to implement this, I mean it's an important feature to be added and critical if we think on jax rs. In order to be logical I am thinking just on apply the medium blog's idea, then we can add it to helidon and for the last we should think on something like a SocketSeevices

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