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If Virtual Threads are the solution, what is the problem?
Java’s Virtual Threads (aka Project Loom or JEP 444) have arrived as a full platform feature in Java 21, which has generated considerable interest and many projects (including Eclipse Jetty) are adding support. I have previously been somewhat skeptical about how significant any advantages Virtual Threads actually have over Platform Read more
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Security Audit with Trail of Bits
Several months ago, the Eclipse Foundation approached the Eclipse Jetty project with the offer of a security audit. The effort was being supported through a collaboration with the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), with the actual funding coming from the Alpha-Omega Project. Upon reflection, this collaboration could not have Read more
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New Jetty 12 Maven Coordinates
Now that Jetty 12.0.1 is released to Maven Central, we’ve started to get a few questions about where some artifacts are, or when we intend to release them (as folks cannot find them). Things have change with Jetty, starting with the 12.0.0 release. First, is that our historical versioning of Read more
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Jetty Project and TCK
The Jetty project has a long history of participating in the standardization of EExx (previously JEE) specifications such as Servlet and Websocket. Jakarta renaming After the donation of TCK source code by Oracle to Eclipse Foundation, the EE group has decided to change the historical Java package names from javax.servlet Read more
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Jetty & Log4j2 exploit CVE-2021-44228
The Apache Log4j2 library has suffered a series of critical security issues (see this page at the Log4j2 project). Eclipse Jetty by default does not use and does not depend on Log4j2 and therefore Jetty is not vulnerable and thus there is no need for a Jetty release to address Read more
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Community Projects & Contributors Take on Jakarta EE 9
With the recent release of JakartaEE9, the future for Java has never been brighter. In addition to headline projects moving forward into the new jakarta.* namespace, there has been a tremendous amount of work done throughout the community to stay at the forefront of the changing landscape. These efforts are Read more
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Jetty 10 and 11 Have Arrived!
The Eclipse Jetty team is proud to announce the release of Jetty 10 and Jetty 11! Let’s first get into the details of Jetty 10, which includes a huge amount of enhancements and upgrades. A summary of the changes follows. Minimum Java Version The minimum required Java version for Jetty Read more
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Renaming Jetty from javax.* to jakarta.*
The Issue The Eclipse Jakarta EE project has not obtained the rights from Oracle to extend the Java EE APIs living in the javax.* package. As such, the Java community is faced with a choice between continuing to use the frozen javax.* APIs or transitioning to a new jakarta.* namespace Read more
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Indexing/Listing Vulnerability in Jetty
If you are using DefaultServlet or ResourceHandler with indexing/listing, then you are vulnerable to a variant of XSS behaviors surrounding the use of injected HTML element attributes on the parent directory link. We recommend disabling indexing/listing or upgrading to a non-vulnerable version. To disable indexing/listing: If using the DefaultServlet (provided Read more