The IBM developer works article "Java EE meets Web 2.0" argues the case well that asynchronous concerns must be addressed in web-2.0. However it concludes that Jetty continuations are a quick hack and that Tomcat has the more sane and straightforward approach! We investigate this claim.[Read More]
Posted at 02:38PM Nov 19, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[3]
The Jetty 6.1.0 release is now available via http://jetty.mortbay.org. It represents both a stabilization of the features already released in 6.0.x, plus a raft of new features. For a full description of Jetty 6.1, see http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/.[Read More]
Posted at 01:46AM Jan 07, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[6]
Jetty Continuations for Quality of Service.
Jetty Continuations can be used to prevent resource starvation caused by JDBC Connection pools or similar slow and/or restricted resources. Jetty Continuations have mostly been discussed in the context of web 2.0, Ajax Push and Comet. However there are many other use cases and the Throttle Filter, written by Jetty committer Tim Vernum, is an excellent example of how Continuations can be used to provide a consistent quality of service within a web application.[Read More]
Posted at 02:25PM Oct 18, 2006 by gregw in General | Comments[4]
