Blogs

The guys at Atomikos, creators of the excellent JTA/XA transaction manager have decided to go open source. We first got to know Atomikos when we integrated it with Jetty5, and we’ve also done the integration with Jetty6. We’ll be working Read more

Jetty Jspc Maven Plugin I’ve added a new maven2 plugin that does jsp pre-compilation. Just like the Jetty Maven Plugin, the new plugin detects whether jsp2.0 or jsp2.1 is required at runtime and generates the correct classes accordingly. All you Read more

Greg Wilkins, the lead developer of Jetty and CEO of Webtide, will be speaking at this years AJAXWorld Conference. Greg’s presentation is about the challenges of scalably serving Ajax Comet from Java Servlets. The various asynchronous servlet extensions are evaluated Read more

Webtide has joined the Open Ajax Alliance. The chief goal of the alliance is to accelerate customer success with Ajax by promoting a customer’s ability to mix and match solutions from Ajax technology providers and by helping to drive the Read more

Until now, Jetty has not provided Java Server Pages Standard Tag Library nor Java Server Faces support with the container. Webapps wishing to use either of these facilities have had to explicitly include the necessary jars in their webapps. With Read more

I’ve been looking at Glassfish quite a bit lately, and liking what I see. In particular, I’ve been looking closely at the JSP 2.1 implementation. It appears to be robust and well-tested. My interest was prompted by the number of Read more

Cometd is a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus that uses a push technology pattern known as Comet. The term ‘Comet’ was coined by Alex Russell in his post ‘Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser‘. Cometd consists of a protocol Read more

I have reconsidered the API for asynchronous servlets that I proposed in my recent blog – it is not good!. It makes some of the same mistakes as weblogic and tomcat have made with their asynchronous extensions. So let’s have Read more

Mort Bay has been a successful small open source services company for over 10 years. But the business of open source is changing and is there is more demand for support and services from larger organizations. Thus Mort Bay has Read more

Greg Wilkins and Jan Bartel, the lead developers of Jetty, recently launched Webtide at the O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention 2006 held at the Oregon Convention Center. Webtide, a company specializing in Web 2.0 and AJAX technologies, is a partnership between Read more