There is a revolution quietly happening on the web and if you blink you might miss it. The revolution is in the speed and latency with which some browsers can load some web pages, and what used to take 100’s of ms is now often reduced to 10’s. The revolution Read more
With the release of Jetty 7.5.0 and the latest draft 13 of the WebSocket protocol, the API for the client has be re-factored a little since my last blog on WebSocket: Server, Client and Load Test. WebSocketClientFactory When creating many instances of the java WebSocketClient, there is much that can Read more
When Jetty 7.5.0 is released we will have officially started to dabble in the area of distributed session handling and storage. To start this out we have created a set of abstract classes around the general concept of NoSQL support, and have prepared an initial implementation using MongoDB. We will Read more
The websocket protocol specification is approaching final and the Jetty implementation and API have been tracking the draft and is ready when the spec and browsers are available. More over, Jetty release 7.5.0 now includes a capable websocket java client that can be used for non browser applications or Read more
I have done some very rough preliminary benchmarks on the latest cometd-2.4.0-SNAPSHOT with the latest Jetty-7.5.0-SNAPSHOT and the results are rather impressive. The features that these two releases have added are: Optimised Jetty NIO with latest JVMs and JITs considered. Latest websocket draft implemented and optimised. Websocket client implemented. Jackson Read more
Jetty JMX Webservice is a webapp providing a RESTful API to query JMX mbeans and invoke mbean operations without the hassle that comes with RMI. No more arguments with your firewall admin, just a single http port. That alone might not be a killer feature, but Jetty JMX Webservice also Read more
The Jetty Overlay Deployer allows multiple WAR files to be overlayed so that a web application can be customised, configured and deployed without the need to unpack, modify and repack the WAR file. This has the benefits of: The WAR file may be kept immutable, even signed, so that it Read more
Since the very beginning, Jetty has been IOC friendly and thus has been able to be configured with spring. But the injecting and assembling the jetty container is not the only need that Jetty has for configuration and there are several other configuration files (eg contexts/yourapp.xml, jetty-web.xml, jetty-env.xml) that have Read more
The WebSockets protocol and API is an emerging standard to provide better bidirectional communication between a browser (or other web client) and a server. It is intended to eventually replace the comet techniques like long polling. Jetty has supported the various websocket drafts in the 7.x and 8.x releases and Read more
A release candidate of Jetty 7.4 is now available as both Jetty@eclipse and Jetty-Hightide@codehaus distributions. This release contains a number of new features which I will briefly introduce now, and make the target of more detailed blogs, webinars and wiki pages over the next few weeks: Jetty Overlay Deployer Jetty Read more