Making a name for online image search Polar Rose’s unique technology gives greater meaning and context to digital photos by allowing them to be indexed online just like text documents. The company developer user friendly, fun, useful, transparent applications that have evolved from computer vision research at the Universities of Read more
Photacular enables users to create fun, unique products from their photographs with safe, secure, 24/7 online access. Options include T-shirts, mugs, coasters, jewelry, holiday ornaments, canvas prints, and more. All are custom made. Challenges: The company sought to launch an easy to use rich web-based application for customizing photo-based items. Read more
Hightide 6.1H.6 is available for download from the Webtide website here: http://www.webtide.com/downloads.jsp The changes in this release include: jetty 6.1.6 atomikos version updated to 3.2.1 dwr updated to 2.0.2 debian packaging The Hightide wiki has more information, along with instructions on how to install the debian packages.
As with OpenNMS in my previous post, I always like to highlight great uses of Jetty out there. In this case, with the automated voice service of VW Financial Services. ITPro.co.uk Link The article reports running Jetty with speech synthesis, Oracle, and SAP. Have at it!
The tomcat 6 developers have proposed an asynchronous IO extension as their solution for Comet and Ajax push. I have long argued that asynchronous handling is needed for Servlets (for comet and other use-cases), but that it is very important to make the distinction between asynchronous IO and asynchronous handling Read more
Always glad to highlight examples from among the hundreds of thousands of Jetty users. Here is one from OpenNMS, the systems management platform. OpenNMS summary link which yielded benefits as they say: “-caching of objects is shared between the backend and the web interface -Tomcat no longer needs to be Read more
The IBM developer works article “Java EE meets Web 2.0” argues the case well that asynchronous concerns must be addressed in web-2.0. However it concludes that Jetty continuations are a quick hack and that Tomcat has the more sane and straightforward approach! We investigate this claim. The article contains a Read more
I’ll be contributing to the new Comet Daily website which aims to provide daily articles and blog entries about Comet techniques. The contributors are all leading software engineers who build Comet servers, clients, and web applications. I have already posted two articles there: “Educating Comet!” about how improved comet branding Read more
Hightide is an open source, versioned and optimized distribution of Jetty providing a comprehensive toolset for the development of scalable, state-of-the-art web 2.0 applications. Release 6.1H.6rc0 of Hightide is ready for download from: www.webtide.com/downloads.jsp This release: upgrades jetty to version 6.1.6rc0 upgrades atomikos to version 3.2.0 upgrades derby to version Read more