Which native server is best, in your opinion, to implement long-polling / Comet? The first target application is chat, but there will be other implementations - we basically need push-to-client capabilities.
I'm limiting the answers to C# or Java because these two technologies are dominant at my workplace. The requirements are as usual: performance, ease of deployment/programming, customization, ...
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I just saw this blogpost from Scott Hanselman yesterday. It looks very promising.
It features an opensource product called SignalR which is available through nuget.
You can find an example chat application in the sources @ github