We have always known Jetty is used far and wide. This is the first instance I know of where a governmental watchdog has shut down a project using Jetty on competitive grounds. Not Jetty’s fault, of course, just an industry concentration consideration. As kindly noted, Jetty was the basis of Read more
Mingfai Ma has created a grails cometd plugin that combines grails 1.1, jetty-6.1 and cometd 6.1.12 to provide spring based grails application environment. Because of the great integration between groovy and java, the java server side Bayeux API may be used to subscribe to channels and have messages delivered to Read more
Jetty’s use is obviously extremely widespread. Several projects, including Equinox (OSGi) and the IDE at the Eclipse Foundation actually already include versions of Jetty. And now, Jetty as a project has proposed to join that foundation here. Please do take a look at that proposal, and join the linked newsgroup Read more
The Boy Genius Report has an interesting screenshot with Palm’s new WebOS for the Pre starting up, and showing Jetty… Here’s the image page We’re certainly in favor of Jetty in mobile situations. It is small enough to fit those footprints, and can still get good performance, as we’ve seen Read more
After my blog on the Servlet 3.0 Public Review, I have been working on an implementation of the Servlet-3.0 asynchronous servlets with some the fixes/extensions I suggested in my previous blog and from some continuing discussion within the EG. Specifically: A new ASYNC DispatcherType for redispatched asynchronous requests The isAsyncStarted() Read more
JSR-315: JCP Failings JSR-315 has produced a Public Review (PR) of the servlet 3.0 specification, which unfortunately is a poor document and the product of a discordant expert group (EG) working within a flawed process. I know this article will be read as a criticism of my fellow EG members, Read more
Last week I noted that people found great performance with “rails 2.2 + jruby + jetty = win” This week, we’re happy to find that the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is shifting its hosted mode from Tomcat to Jetty from Q1 2009. Find their announcement here… GWT Project Link Great!
First off, I think I like wicket, its a pretty neat framework and it has some pretty solid integration with ajax which is interesting. I have to say though that having spent a lot of time on the whole long polling, ajax push, cometd type of communication approach the whole Read more
You may not know, but Jetty is a really common underlying platform for deploying Rails apps. Jan Berkel (no relation to Webtide’s Jan Bartel) found Jetty ran his app more than twice as fast as did Mongrel, and embedded far easier than did Glassfish. Great! Here’s the entry