This guide walks you through the process of creating a “hello world” application that sends messages back and forth, between a browser and the server. WebSocket is a very thin, lightweight layer above TCP. It makes it very suitable to use “subprotocols” to embed messages. In this guide, we’ll dive in and use STOMP messaging with Spring to create an interactive web application.
Maven Dependencies First, we need to add the Spring messaging modules in the POM file: