Roadmap for Jetty-6, Jetty-7 and Jetty-8
This blog updates the roadmap for jetty-6, jetty-7 and jetty-8 with the latest plans resulting from the move to the Eclipse Foundation and the delay in the servlet-3.0 specification.[Read More]
Posted at 02:47PM Jul 02, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[7]
The announcement of Google Wave is a bold declaration of where google sees the future of the web. Google, unsurprisingly enough, sees the future of the web as a server side paradigm, with dynamic updates being used to drive the thin client model to capture even more of tasks that where once done client side. Google are extending the server side model of webmail to apply to applications that have been fundamentally client side, such as document authoring, IM and chat.[Read More]
Posted at 12:32PM Jul 01, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
Webtide/Jetty gathering at JavaOne
For SnoracleZero (aka Java One) this year, we are planning a social get together of Jetty users and Webtide clients 8pm Tuesday (June 2).[Read More]
Posted at 10:49AM May 27, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[1]
Servlet 3.0 Proposed "Final" Draft
I previously strongly criticised the Servlet 3.0 JSR-315 process and the resulting Public Review Draft, describing it as a: "poor document and the product of a discordant expert group (EG) working within a flawed process" and of producing a "Frankenstein monster, cobbled together from eviscerated good ideas and misguided best intentions".
... I'd like to focus on the improved spirit of the group and highlight some of the technical achievements that have resulted.
[Read More]Posted at 10:55PM May 21, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[4]
Greg Wilkins will be presenting a webinar on Jetty @ http://live.eclipse.org April 27 - 1:00 pm PDT / 4:00 pm EDT / 8:00 pm GMT[Read More]
Posted at 08:54AM Apr 27, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
Maven, m2e and the Nexus Repository manager
Jetty-7 is moving to eclipse, cometd-java is moving from jetty to cometd.org and the maven build system for dojo has been moved out of the main dojo tree. So I'm involved in some major refactoring of three interdependent projects at the same time. This refactoring would be impossible to contemplate without the tools support for these projects. Maven, m2e and nexus are making my life a lot easier![Read More]
Posted at 06:50PM Apr 01, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
The jetty @ eclipse project is now in incubation at the eclipse foundation as part of the EclipseRT runtime project. On Tuesday 24th March, the Jetty-7 code base was converted to org.eclipse.jetty package space and checked into the eclipse jetty svn repository!!![Read More]
Posted at 04:04AM Mar 26, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
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.
[Read More]
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]
Asynchronous Restful Webapplication
This blog annotates the Jetty 7 example web application that uses Jetty asynchronous HTTP client and the proposed suspendable servlets 3.0 API, to call an eBay restful web service. The technique combines the Jetty asynchronous HTTP client with the Jetty servers ability to suspend servlet processing, so that threads are not held while waiting for rest responses. Thus threads can handle many more requests and web applications using this technique should obtain at least ten fold increases in performance.[Read More]
Posted at 12:59AM Aug 15, 2008 by gregw in General | Comments[2]
Bad Robot! Google Android is evil
Webtide has been putting some effort into porting Jetty onto Google's Android mobile phone platform. We were seduced to expend this effort by the promise from Google that android would provide "a new level of openness". Yet we may be forced to abandon this effort as Google's bad robot breaks Asimovs 3 laws of Robotics as they have been modified for openness by the the eclipse foundation.[Read More]
Posted at 10:34AM Aug 09, 2008 by gregw in General | Comments[5]
Posted at 05:42PM Jul 10, 2008 by gregw in General | Comments[9]
Jetty Improves in Netcraft survey (again)
Posted at 11:51AM Apr 11, 2008 by gregw in General | Comments[5]
