ITConversation podcast on Cometd and Push Technology
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.[Read More]
Posted at 11:57AM Aug 04, 2010 by gregw in General | Comments[1]
Cometd-2 Throughput vs Latency
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 cometd, plus we have moved to Jetty-7.1.4 from eclipse as the main web server for cometd.[Read More]
Posted at 04:29PM Jun 23, 2010 by gregw in General | Comments[3]
Lies, Damned Lies and Benchmarks
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 having better performance than jetty in 3 out of 4 scenarios, and that jetty NIO sucked! So is HttpCore really an faster
than Jetty and does Jetty NIO suck?
[Read More]
Posted at 11:19AM Jun 18, 2010 by gregw in General | Comments[6]
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 and does not help with comet applications. In a websocket world, there is even more need for frameworks like cometd.[Read More]
Posted at 04:27AM Mar 02, 2010 by gregw in General | Comments[6]
Webinar on reliable messaging with Jetty, Cometd and ActiveMQ
Jan Bartel (Intalio) and Daan Van Santeen (Progress FUSE) will be giving a series of live webinars on how Jetty, Cometd and ActiveMQ can be used to provide a reliable messaging platform to the browser.[Read More]
Posted at 09:34AM Feb 11, 2010 by gregw in General | Comments[15]
There is a jurisdictional issue brewing over the future of internet standards. The dispute is between the WHATWG and the IETF regarding the specification process for the websocket protocol.[Read More]
Posted at 11:01AM Jan 31, 2010 by gregw in General | Comments[18]
Jetty-7.0.1 has been extended with a WebSocket server implementation based on the same scalable asynchronous IO infrastructure of Jetty and integrated into the Jetty Servlet container.
[Read More]Posted at 03:46PM Nov 24, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[19]
Cometd Features and Extensions
The cometd project is nearing a 1.0 release and thus we are make a bit of a push to improve the project documentation. As part of this effort, we have realized that there are many cool features and extensions to cometd that have been under-publicized. So this blog is an attempt to give a whirlwind tour of cometd features and extensions.[Read More]
Posted at 04:16PM Jul 08, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[3]
Jetty-6 Continuations introduced the concept of asynchronous servlets to provide scalability
and quality of service to web 2.0 applications such as chat,
collaborative editing, price publishing, as well as powering HTTP based
frameworks like cometd, apache camel, openfire XMPP and flex BlazeDS.
With the introduction of similar asynchronous features in Servlet-3.0, some
have suggested that the Continuation API would be deprecated. Instead,
the Continuation API has been updated to provide a simplified portability run asynchronously
on any servlet 3.0 container as well as on Jetty (6,7 & 8).
Continuations will work synchronously (blocking) on any 2.5 servlet
container. Thus programming to the Continuations API allows your
application to achieve asynchronicity today without waiting for the
release of stable 3.0 containers (and needing to upgrade all your
associated infrastructure). wt58jhp2an
[Read More]
Posted at 02:11AM Jul 06, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[1]
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 07:47PM Jul 02, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[8]
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 05:32PM 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 03:49PM 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 03:55AM May 22, 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 01:54PM 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 11:50PM Apr 01, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
