Hightide is a versioned, optimized distro of Jetty, with many J2EE/JavaEE features pre-integrated in a lightweight manner so you can enjoy their benefits but without needing a heavyweight JavaEE Application Server. We’ve also included state-of-the-art, scaleable backend support for Ajax. The idea being to provide a powerful but flexible container for webapp development and deployment. The distro gives you these features already baked in:
- Servlet 2.5 container (Jetty)
- JSP2.1 support
- XA transactions (from Atomikos)
- JNDI
- Annotations (coming in the next release)
- JMS (from ActiveMQ)
- JDBC (from Derby)
- JAAS
- JMX
- Continuations
- Hot deployment
- cometd implementation
- DWR
If you prefer to use a different database, XA manager or messaging fabric you can simply swap them in instead.
You also get a live log viewer accessible from your browser, and integration with JDK logging.
To help you get started quickly, we’ve included a few Ajax-based webapps that demonstrate the features of Hightide. One of them, the Auction Demo is also available live on the Webtide site if you want a sneak preview.
Like Jetty, Hightide is open source and uses the Apache 2.0 licence.Via Webtide we are providing full, long term dev and production support for it.
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One response to “Hightide Released”
Congratulations and thank you for releasing such a highly useful bundle. There is now a viable alternative to JBoss.