We have recently committed the first stab at a google-gears enabled Appcelerator SDK. Google Gears (now just called “Gears”) is a really awesome browser plugin that gives you some out-of-process Javascript capabilities like offline and multithreading via worker pools.

With the next release of the SDK, Appcelerator’s javascript servicebroker will now automagically (and transparently) switch to using a Gears-enabled servicebroker when talking to your service-backend. That means your application will perform faster because the AJAX communication between client and server (especially for apps using fast polling) will be out-of-process using Gears’ worker pool.

You have to do nothing to enable this in your application. When you Appcelerator application loads, a small piece of code will check to see if Gears is enabled and will dynamically load the gears-enabled servicebroker code.

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