Blogs

I had a great conversation recently with Benjamin Kuo at socalTECH.com. Webtide is an extremely distributed organization around the world, but indeed I am located in the heart of Southern California, Los Angeles. It was a good time to talk Read more

The cometd project is nearing a 1.0 release and thus we are make a bit of a push to improve the project documentation. As part of this effort, we have realized that there are many cool features and extensions to Read more

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 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, 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 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 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 Read more

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 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 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 Read more