Jetty-6 Continuations introduced the concept of asynchronous servlets to provide scalability and quality of service to web 2.0 applications such as chat, collaborative editing, price publishing, as well as powering HTTP based frameworks like cometd, apache camel, openfire XMPP and flex BlazeDS. wt58jhp2an With the introduction of similar asynchronous features Read more
This blog updates the roadmap for jetty-6, jetty-7 and jetty-8 with the latest plans resulting from the move to the Eclipse Foundation and the delay in the servlet-3.0 specification. Previously it was intended that jetty-7 was going to be servlet-3.0, but with the move to eclipse and with the delay Read more
I really like the idea behind the HTML5 Websocket API – namely that a datagram model should be used for web application communication rather than a request/response paradigm (this is also the idea behind cometd). But unfortunately, the proposed protocol to carry websocket traffic is neither a good protocol nor Read more
The announcement of Google Wave is a bold declaration of where Google sees the future of the web. Google, unsurprisingly enough, sees the future of the web as a server side paradigm, with dynamic updates being used to drive the thin client model to capture even more of tasks that Read more
For SnoracleZero (aka Java One) this year, we are planning a social get together of Jetty users and Webtide clients 8pm Tuesday (June 2). If you’d like to come along, email javaone@webtide.com and we’ll pick a venue depending on the estimated numbers. See you there!
In my December 2008 blog, I strongly criticised the Servlet 3.0 JSR-315 process and the resulting Public Review Draft, describing it as a: “poor document and the product of a discordant expert group (EG) working within a flawed process” and of producing a “Frankenstein monster, cobbled together from eviscerated good Read more
For the last couple of jetty @ eclipse releases I have been working with getting a bit more used to the eclipse way of doing things. One of those ‘eclipse way’ deals is the p2 update site and I am announcing here the availability of a certain subset of jetty Read more
JJ Zhuang of Yahoo!’s Zimbra division has posted up the architecture of their offline user client. It makes innovative use, or should I say re-use of their server code to present a seamless experience for desktop users regardless of connection state. He says they did this, with Jetty underpinning, for Read more
Greg Wilkins and Jan Bartel join me for a nice interview with JavaWorld’s Andrew Glover, particularly about Comet support and i-Jetty. Listen in! Podcast Link
Greg’s excellent presentation is now posted in recorded form. Check it out, find out about Jetty’s relation with Eclipse, with OSGi, its continued availability under Apache license, asynchronous servlets and much, much more. Link to Eclipse