Jan's Blog

Thursday Feb 28, 2008

Java EE 6 Web Profile

The JSR-316 group - the JavaEE expert group - has suggested the idea of "profiles" to formally provide the option of slimmed-down app servers. There are various options being mooted for a Web Profile, but all of them contain JSP and related technologies as mandatory. I argue that the time for JSP as a mandated presentation technology has past and a Web Profile should simply consist of the servlet specification. In fact, I'm doubtful of the profile solution, and see much more value in a flexible container that allows you to plug in the implementations of the standard APIs as your needs dictate.[Read More]

Sunday Feb 04, 2007

Hightide Released

Hightide is a versioned, optimized distro of Jetty, with many J2EE/JavaEE features pre-integrated in a lightweight manner, also including state-of-the-art support for Ajax webapps.[Read More]