title: JSON Asynchronous Application server?
body: <p>First let me explain the data flow I need</p>
  
  <pre><code>Client connects and registers with server
  Server sends initialization JSON to client
  Client listens for JSON messages sent from the server
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now all of this is easy and straightforward to do manually, but I would like to leverage a server of some sort to handle all of the connection stuff, keep-alive, dead clients, etc. etc.</p>
  
  <p>Is there some precedent set on doing this kind of thing? Where a client connects and receives JSON messages asynchronously from a server? Without using doing manual socket programming?</p>