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Jetty has a sexy new plugin for Ant that has the same features as the Maven plugin. So if you didn’t want to move from Ant to Maven, but you still want fast webapp development, now you can have it! Read more

Jetty now supports annotations on managed beans with Sun’s JSF RI version 1.2_04. For the curious, the magic happens in the Jetty6InjectionProvider class that is distributed in the RI jars. However, that’s just an implementation detail. All you need to Read more

I recently attended a Torino JUG meeting and saw Jonas Bon

So Marc Fluery has left JBoss/Redhat and thus brings to an end a chapter of the story of professional open source. One would have to say it has been a very successful chapter and has shown that OS can produce Read more

Hightide is a versioned, optimized distro of Jetty, with many J2EE/JavaEE features pre-integrated in a lightweight manner so you can enjoy their benefits but without needing a heavyweight JavaEE Application Server. We’ve also included state-of-the-art, scaleable backend support for Ajax. Read more

The Jetty 6.1.0 release is now available via http://jetty.mortbay.org. It represents both a stabilization of the features already released in 6.0.x, plus a raft of new features. For a full description of Jetty 6.1, see http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/. Stabilization The core protocol Read more

This rainy weekend, I was inspired by a question from hani about testing servlets. As a result I’ve added a module to Jetty to simply test servlets with an embedded server configured by the ServletTester class. The HTTP requests and Read more

The Google Widget Toolkit allows Ajax applications to be developed in java code using the traditional UI widget paradigm. The toolkit includes support for RPC, but not for comet style Ajax push. Online Gaming is an excellent use-case for Ajax Read more

Having had a couple of emails on the Jetty lists about using EJB3 with Jetty, I’ve been looking at the various embeddable technologies around. Last week I looked at the JBoss Embeddable EJB3 product and got it working in Jetty. Read more

JBoss have come up with an embeddable version of their EJB3 implementation. An alpha release is available for download. I downloaded it and played around with the embedded example from the tutorial. Here’s what I did: once you’ve downloaded and Read more