Is WebSocket Chat Simpler?

A year ago I wrote an article asking Is WebSocket Chat Simple?, where I highlighted the deficiencies of this much touted protocol for implementing simple comet applications like chat. After a year of intense debate there have been many changes and there are new drafts of both the WebSocket protocol Read more

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Cometd with annotations

Cometd 2.1 now supports annotations to define cometd services and clients.  Annotations greatly reduces the boiler plate code required to write a cometd service and also links well with new cometd 2.x features such as channel initializers and Authorizers, so that all the code for a service can be grouped Read more

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Cometd with Annotations

  Cometd 2.1 now supports annotations to define cometd services and clients.  Annotations greatly reduces the boiler plate code required to write a cometd service and also links well with new cometd 2.x features such as channel initializers and Authorizers, so that all the code for a service can be Read more

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Jetty WTP Adaptor

Not too long ago we had a contribution from Angelo Zerr that gave jetty a native WTP adaptor. We are happy to announce its availability now! Shockingly, there is some documentation for this plugin, based on the original documentation provided by Angelo…it was a model contribution, code _and_ docs. Jetty Read more

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Cometd-2 Throughput vs Latency

With the imminent release of cometd-2.0.0, it’s time to publish some of our own lies, damned lies and benchmarks. It has be over 2 years since we published the 20,000 reasons that cometd scales and in that time we have completely reworked both the client side and server side of Read more

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Lies, Damned Lies and Benchmarks

Benchmarks like statistics can be incredibly misleading in ways that are only obvious with detailed analysis. Recently the apache HTTPCore project released some benchmark results whose headline results read as: Jetty HttpCore Linux BIO 35,342 56,185 Linux NIO 1,873 25,970 Windows BIO 31,641 29,438 Windows NIO 6,045 13,076 Looking at Read more

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Guide to Jetty Webinar (Thu 8 April)

Jan Bartel and I will be presenting a "Guide to Jetty" Webinar on Thu, Apr 8, 2010 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT.   We’ll present an overview of Jetty and then show some hands on examples of running Jetty, deploying webapps, coding against the embedded API, plus a cometd Read more

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The Streamlined Life with Jetty

Johannes Brodwall has posted another great description of his techniques dealing with Jetty in everyday development life. It was great to meet him in person finally in Oslo recently, and he definitely has thought through what he does and why, which for your reference, you can find at his blog. Read more

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