Not too long ago we had a contribution from Angelo Zerr that gave jetty a native WTP adaptor. We are happy to announce its availability now! Shockingly, there is some documentation for this plugin, based on the original documentation provided by Angelo…it was a model contribution, code _and_ docs. Jetty Read more
I have presented the advanced features of Jetty at the Eclipse Summit Europe 2010. Highlights of the features that I presented are: Jetty & OSGi, showing the full integration of Jetty with the OSGi world Jetty’s asynchronous HTTP client Jetty’s WebSocket protocol support Jetty’s WTP integration Jetty’s Cloudtide, for multi-tenanted Read more
In July I participated in London to the Comet Panel, organized by the London Ajax User Group. Me and a bunch of other Comet experts talked about our own Comet projects, and I talked about CometD. Here you can watch the video of the meeting (English, 1hr 38m).
A new feature that has been recently added to the upcoming CometD 2.1.0 release is the support for annotated services, both on server side and on client side. Services are the heart of a CometD application, because allow to write business logic that is executed when a message arrives on Read more
Phil Windley of Tecnometria has recorded an interview with me on Cometd and Push Technology. The podcast is available from ITConversations and provides an introduction to comet and cometd.
With the imminent release of cometd-2.0.0, it’s time to publish some of our own lies, damned lies and benchmarks. It has be over 2 years since we published the 20,000 reasons that cometd scales and in that time we have completely reworked both the client side and server side of Read more
Benchmarks like statistics can be incredibly misleading in ways that are only obvious with detailed analysis. Recently the apache HTTPCore project released some benchmark results whose headline results read as: Jetty HttpCore Linux BIO 35,342 56,185 Linux NIO 1,873 25,970 Windows BIO 31,641 29,438 Windows NIO 6,045 13,076 Looking at Read more
Jan Bartel and I will be presenting a "Guide to Jetty" Webinar on Thu, Apr 8, 2010 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT. We’ll present an overview of Jetty and then show some hands on examples of running Jetty, deploying webapps, coding against the embedded API, plus a cometd Read more
Johannes Brodwall has posted another great description of his techniques dealing with Jetty in everyday development life. It was great to meet him in person finally in Oslo recently, and he definitely has thought through what he does and why, which for your reference, you can find at his blog. Read more
The websocket protocol has been touted as a great leap forward for bidirectional web applications like chat, promising a new era of simple comet applications. Unfortunately there is no such thing as a silver bullet and this blog will walk through a simple chat room to see where websocket does Read more