Which Apple Push Notification Service Java library should I use? [closed]

Question

I need to send push notifications to iOS devices, from my Java server, using Apple Push Notification Service (APNS)

I found two libraries to send APNS push notifications in Java:

1. java-apns
2. javapns

But both seem to be abandoned (or at least they have bugs and the last release is a year ago).

java-apns has lots of forks. Is there any updated fork of this library in active development? Are there any other better choices?

Answer 1

If anybody else is looking for an APNs library in Java, we at RelayRides just released Pushy (http://relayrides.github.io/pushy/). It does some things differently than the other two contenders (like async network IO), so it can send large numbers of messages really quickly. We actually use it in production, too, so it's actively maintained by our engineers. Enjoy!

EDIT: To be clear, Pushy is free and open-source (MIT license).

EDIT: Project has moved to https://github.com/jchambers/pushy

Answer 2

After digging around for a while, I could only find those two libraries you mentioned so I looked at some of the most recent forks on the java-apns GitHub page and the most recent one I could find was done by a user under the name "froh42". His fork is located here [dead]. The latest commit was 4 days ago, but I'm not sure if this person is actually adding to the repo's core functionality or not since it's very late and I'm too tired to check.

My suggestion would be, if you're going to use java-apns, to look at froh's repo and see if it checks out or not. If it doesn't, you can view the list of forks from the original java-apns repo here. Sorry I couldn't be of more help to you and good luck!

Note: Do not use any of your libraries since those are based on the Binary Provider API which will stop working from Nov. 2020!