Bidirectional Web Transfer Protocol - BWTP
I really like the idea behind the HTML5 Websocket API - namely that a datagram model should be used for web application communication rather than a request/response paradigm (this is also the idea behind cometd). But unfortunately, the proposed protocol to carry websocket traffic is neither a good protocol nor is it well specified.[Read More]
Posted at 03:38PM Jul 01, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[1]
Cometd Acknowledged Message Extension
With the release of the latest cometd-jetty in Jetty 6.1.15, the oft requested feature of reliable message delivery is now supported by the Acknowledged Message Extension in the jetty server and in the dojo and jquery clients... ... provide an acknowledged message mechanism for reliable message delivery.[Read More]
Posted at 01:54AM Mar 11, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[1]
Mingfai Ma has created a grails cometd plugin that combines grails 1.1,
jetty-6.1 and cometd 6.1.12 to provide spring based grails application
environment.
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Posted at 09:44AM Jan 30, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[4]
Servlet 3.0 Public Review : Update
I have been working on an implementation of the Servlet-3.0 asynchronous servlets with some the fixes/extensions I suggested in my previous blog and from some continuing discussion within the EG. This implementation demonstrates that significant asynchronous behaviour can be implemented without the complexities of redispatching wrapped requests or the forward(path) methods.[Read More]
Posted at 09:33PM Dec 20, 2008 by gregw in General | Comments[3]
Scalable BlazeDS with async Jetty
Valery Silaev has pointed me to an article on flex.sys-con.com that demonstrates how the asynchronous features of Jetty have been used by Farata Systems to achieve some excellent scalability results with BlazeDS.
BlazeDS is an open source server side that provides comet style streaming events to a flex/flash client side (not strictly comet as it is not strictly ajax).
Posted at 11:09PM Oct 29, 2008 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
Jetty Improves in Netcraft survey (again)
Posted at 11:51AM Apr 11, 2008 by gregw in General | Comments[5]
Posted at 01:50PM Nov 22, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[2]
So you're in a session at AjaxWorld and it's not rocking your world! Want to know where the real rockstars are talking? Want to know what sessions are going off? Then tune into
Rocks Or Not and rate sessions in real time and see what others think of the other session live.[Read More]
Posted at 06:59PM Sep 24, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[2]
JSR-315: Servlet 3.0 Specification - part I
The Java Community process has proposed JSR-315 to consider the 3.0 servlet specification. In this blog entry, I look at the Async and Comet considerations listed in the JSR-315 and discuss how 3.0 servlets might address them.[Read More]
Posted at 03:02PM Jun 21, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
I'm just fresh out of a session at JavaOne where Sun have revealed their road map for the servlet 3.0 specification. My initial reaction is that it contains both some good and bad items as well as quite a few concerns in between. The 10 words or less version is: Annotations, JSF, Ajax, Comet, REST, scripts, security and Misc.[Read More]
Posted at 10:35AM May 09, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[6]
Gaming with GWT and Jetty continuations
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. I've been working with Ryan Dewsbury of www.aplayr.com to convert their GWT powered games of risk and pocker to use Jetty continuations. First... play a lot of poker![Read More]
Posted at 05:52AM Dec 08, 2006 by gregw in General | Comments[7]
