I have a PHP chatroom that currently uses long polling with JQuery. Someone recommended that I upgrade to using PHP Websockets in order to get my PHP Chatroom to communicate with a project I've been working on for a tutorial in familiarizing myself with dual channel with callbacks in WCF with netTCPBinding. As soon as I looked up chat app-building tutorials, sure enough I started seeing more socket-based programming (which I have not done much of).
Can someone please clarify the difference to me between WCF's netTcpBinding (or a modern version of .NET remoting as I have heard a PluralSight author call it) and using websockets or just sockets in general? And any advice in getting me to connect either a Java chat client or my PHP chatroom connected to my server in my tutorial WCF chat client-server project?
