A patch is now available for the development version of Jetty that introduces some of the proposed features for Servlet 3.0. Key among these is a suspend/resume API on the request object that is a proposed standardization the Jetty Continuation mechanism for asynchronous servlets. The patch is against the 6.2-SNAPSHOT Read more
Johannes Brodwall is kind enough to highlight his commercial experience in switching to Jetty. His only regret?… not doing it sooner. Link to his experience Please drop us a note if we can help you with advice, support, or custom development to go down this path with the experts backing Read more
Based on Greg’s earlier benchmarking on Amazon EC2 nodes. Good stuff! It is great to demonstrate that open approaches can yield the best performance. InfoQ Link
A great endorsement of the performance of Jetty for Ajax apps. (and of course, for the help Webtide can provide). Application Development Trends article link Zimbra’s blog entry on the subject. Zimbra serves millions of users, and we’re proud to work with them. Webtide’s services and support help many companies Read more
The maven webapp archetypes – all with configuration for the handy Jetty maven plugin built in – made available by Webtide have recently been updated to the following versions: Active MQ – 5.0.0 Dojo – 1.0.2 DWR – 2.0.2 JSF – 1.2_07 Spring – 2.5 Struts – 2.0.11 Tapestry – Read more
Web server clusters are used for scalability (handling more requests), availability (always have a server available) and fault tolerance (handling the failure of a server). Of these, the fault tolerance is the hardest and most costly mechanism to implement as it requires that all session data be replicated off the Read more
I have published a comet Daily article that describes how I have benchmarked Jetty’s Cometd implementationof dojox Bayeux protocol to 20,000 simultaneous clients. This blog looks at the same results from a more Jetty centric view point. The diagram above shows results of the benchmarking. These results are described in Read more
The web-2.0 Ajax Comet use-cases have been getting most the attention when it comes to asynchronous features of servlet containers. The Asynchronous features are needed so that a request may wait without a thread allocated while waiting for a comet event to deliver to the Ajax client. However, there are Read more
This one’s purely in their words… “In summary, we chose Jetty not only because it supports Comet in a scalable manner, but also because the Continuation implementation of Comet is least disruptive to existing Servlet based technologies.” -JJ Zhuang See their full posting with Webtide endorsement here!