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Dojo Toolkit Maven Repository

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:42:00 GMT

Using maven to build your project is a fantastic for managing your dependencies and avoiding having dependencies (and their dependencies) checked into your own svn. The only fly in the ointment, is projects that don't publish maven artifacts, and the Ajax dojo toolkit has been one of these. Until now that is!

JSR-315 Needs You II

Sun, 18 May 2008 02:33:00 GMT

Rajiv, the spec lead on JSR-315 has posted his views on the issue of flexible automatic configuration of web applications. Despite vigorous arguments for flexibility (or perhaps because of them), I've not been able to make the case with those opposed to selective enabling of auto configuration....

Patterns for Servlet 3.0 suspend usage.

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:04:09 GMT

This blog presents 5 patterns of suspend usage for servlet-3.0, which can help explain the generic cases, provide a template for specific implementations and/or be the basis of frameworks to help developers.

JSR-315 Needs YOU!

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:33:26 GMT

The expert group for JSR 315 (servlet-3.0) has come to a bit of an impasse regarding some new features for auto discovery of servlets and filters. Some members of the EG have some security/flexibility concerns regarding these features, but others do not think the concerns significant enough to warrant additional complexity in configuration options.
In order to resolve this impasse, the EG has decided to solicit more community feedback. So this is my biased blog soliciting that feedback.

Use-Cases for Async Servlets

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:39:34 GMT

Pre-release 0 of Jetty 7.0.0 is now available and includes a preview of the proposed Servlet 3.0 API for asynchronous servlets. This blog looks at 4 cool things you can do with asynchronous servlets and how they can be implemented using the proposed API.

Jetty Improves in Netcraft survey (again)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:51:38 GMT

As with most open source projects, it's very hard to get a measure of who/how/where/why Jetty is being used a deployed. Downloads long ago became meaningless with the advent of many available bundling and distribution channels. The Netcraft Web Survey is one good measure, as it scans the internet and identifies which server sites run. In the results released April 2008, Jetty is identified for 278,501 public server, which is 80% of the market share of our closest "competitor" tomcat. If we exclude unknowns and others catagory, Jetty is currently 12th in the league table of identified servers of all types and closing in on a top 10 ranking .

Jesse Mcconnell at Webtide

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:58:00 GMT

Jesse Mcconnell (of maven background) has joined Webtide. Jesse has been with us for several months now and we are really please to have his experience and skills being applied to the Jetty project and for Webtide clients.

Jesse has started a blog, and his first technical entry is a cracker! He's used the proposed async servlet 3.0 API to implement an asynchronous web services demonstration. This demonstration clearly shows the huge gains that are possible with an asynchronous approach.

Servlet 3.0 sampler patch

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:33:00 GMT

A patch is now available for the development version of Jetty that introduces some of the proposed features for Servlet 3.0. Key among these is a suspend/resume API on the request object that is a proposed standardization the Jetty Continuation mechanism for asynchronous servlets.

Client-side session replication for clusters

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:32:12 GMT

Techniques for replicating session data include distributing: to all nodes in a cluster; to a subset of the nodes in the cluster; to a database; to a cluster server; etc. etc. To this range of solutions, cometd/bayeux now adds the possibility of using the client machine to store replicated session.

20,000 reasons why Jetty scales

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:12:14 GMT

I have published a comet Daily article that describes how I have benchmarked Jetty's Cometd implementationof dojox Bayeux protocol to 20,000 simultaneous clients. This blog looks at the same results from a more Jetty centric view point.