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]
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]
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]
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]
JSR-315 has produced a Public Review (PR) of the servlet 3.0 specification, which unfortunately is a poor document and the product of a discordant expert group (EG) working within a flawed process.[...] Significant effort has been put into the PR proposal [...] but unfortunately it has become a Frankenstein monster, cobbled together from eviscerated good ideas and misguided best intentions. The 8 methods of the ED proposal that were rejected as being too complex and confusing have been replaced by 20 methods and 3 new interfaces! [...] The EG is desperately in need of community feedback and probably another round of Public Review after a beta RI is made available.
Posted at 06:04AM Dec 16, 2008 by gregw in General | Comments[23]
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]
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]
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]
Clustering cometd with Terracotta.
I recently attended a Torino JUG meeting and saw Jonas Bonér speak about transparent clustering with Terracotta. It was an interesting talk and went a long way to alleviating the concerns I have with the star architecture of terracotta. Thus I wanted to try out a terracotta cluster, but I thought that simply clustering HTTP session in jetty was a bit obvious, easy and above all boring. So instead I used terracotta to cluster the jetty implementation of cometd.[Read More]
Posted at 02:42PM Feb 19, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[5]
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 07:46PM Jan 06, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[6]