Simone Bordet and I spoke at JavaOne this year about the evolution of web protocol and how HTTP is being replaced by WebSocket (for new semantics) and by SPDY (for better efficiency). The demonstration of SPDY Push is particularly good at showing how SPDY can greatly improve the latency of Read more
Jetty 9 milestone 0 has landed! We are very excited about getting this release of jetty out and into the hands of everyone. A lot of work as gone into reworking fundamentals and this is going to be the best version of jetty yet! Anyway, as promised a few weeks Read more
Here we are with summer coming to an end, the kids going back to school, and lots of software projects yet to complete before year end. What are the options we have for our development projects? Should we buy commercially packaged software, have our own people create what we Read more
Development on Jetty-9 has been chugging along for quite some time now and it looks like we’ll start releasing milestones in around the end of September. This is exciting because we have a lot of cool improvements and features coming that I’ll leave to others to blog about in specific Read more
The IETF HTTPbis Working Group recently called for expressions of interest in the development of the HTTP/2.0 protocol, with SPDY being one of the candidates to use as a basis. As a HTTP server and an early implementer of the SPDY protocol, the Jetty project certainly has an interest in Read more
We keep pushing our SPDY implementation and with the upcoming Jetty release we provide a fully functional SPDY proxy server out of the box. Simply by configuration you can setup Jetty to provide a SPDY connector where clients can connect to via SPDY and will be transparently proxied to a Read more
I’ve done a quick run with the Page Benchmarker Extension on chromium to measure the difference between http and SPDY + push. Enabling benchmarks restricts chromium to SPDY draft 2 so we’ll run without flow control. Note that the website is not the fastest (in fact it’s pretty slow). But Read more
SPDY, Google’s web protocol, is gaining momentum. Intending to improve the user’s web experience it aims at severely reducing page load times. We’ve blogged about the protocol and jetty’s straight forward SPDY support already: Jetty-SPDY is joining the revolution! and SPDY support in Jetty. No we’re taking this a step Read more
Jetty has long had a rich set of JMX mbeans that give very detailed status, configuration and control over the server and applications, which can now simply be accessed with the JMiniX web console: The usability of JMX has been somewhat let down due to a lack of quality JMX Read more
One of my pet peeves is misleading benchmarks, as discussed in my Lies, Damned Lies and Benchmarks blog. Recently there has been a bit of interest in Vert.x, some of it resulting from apparently good benchmark results against node.js. The author gave a disclaimer that the tests were non-rigorous and Read more