I'm exploring some potential design ideas leveraging server-side JavaScript, and so have started compiling a list of articles and resources to review::
http://nodejs.org/
Standard ECMA-262ECMAScript Language SpecificationEdition 5.1 (June 2011)
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm
Bayeux Protocol -- Bayeux 1.0.0
http://svn.cometd.org/trunk/bayeux/bayeux.html
Introduction to Bayeux Protocol (HTTP Publish-Subscribe)
http://blogs.oracle.com/slc/entry/introduction_to_bayeux_protoco
Cometd is a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus that uses a push technology pattern known as Comet.
http://cometd.org/
http://cometd.org/documentation
http://code.google.com/p/cometd/
http://code.google.com/p/cometd/wiki/BayeuxCometdDocumentation
CometD.NET is a C# client library for the Bayeux protocol
https://github.com/Oyatel/CometD.NET
http://cometdaily.com/
V8 JavaScript Engine
http://code.google.com/p/v8/
