Jetty News and Case Studies
Making a name for online image search
Polar Rose's unique technology gives greater meaning and context to digital photos by allowing them to be indexed online just like text documents. The company developer user friendly, fun, useful, transparent applications that have evolved from computer vision research at the Universities of Lund and Malmo in Sweden. Polar Rose is an active member of the open source community.
Challenges: Polar Rose delivers a Firefox plug-in capable of scanning and passing photographic information to back-end servers. A vibrant community of users tag names on these photos and are the driving force behind identification.
In order to fuel both community growth and indexing capacities, Polar Rose required a scalable two-way dynamic communication solution. To meet its exact needs, it also needed expert advice on implementation and customization.
Solution: Polar Rose now uses the Hightide open source distribution of Jetty from Webtide on its servers. By using the Bayeux protocol for two-way communication implemented in the Cometd project together with Java by Webtide, developers can now use efficient and secure channel-based message system.
Issues such as browser connection limits and sharing are transparently handled by Cometd. Jetty scales to host the communications using its asynchronous capabilities to optimally manage system resources. Add Webtide's Developer Advice and Production Support and Polar Rose now has an economical, small footprint, high performance, open source infrastructure.
Why Polar Rose Chose Webtide: "Hightide currently provides the industry's best Cometd support, which Polar Rose uses to get real-time feedback in its Firefox extension. Hightide also integrates many standard Java technologies in a simple lean and mean package which has removed the need for the more traditional fat application servers that one would otherwise use. Because it integrates so well in the development process and tools, it has allowed us to be significantly more agile in implementing new functionality to our rather complex solution." -Stefan Arentz, System Architect, Polar Rose.
Posted at 11:01AM Dec 16, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
Hightide 6.1H.6 is available for download from the Webtide website here:
http://www.webtide.com/downloads.jsp
The changes in this release include:
- jetty 6.1.6
- atomikos version updated to 3.2.1
- dwr updated to 2.0.2
- debian packaging
The Hightide wiki has more information, along with instructions on how to install the debian packages.
Posted at 03:45PM Dec 13, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
Hightide is an open source, versioned and optimized distribution of
Jetty providing a comprehensive toolset for the development of scalable,
state-of-the-art web 2.0 applications.
Release 6.1H.6rc0 of Hightide is ready for download from:
www.webtide.com/downloads.jsp
This release:
- upgrades jetty to version 6.1.6rc0
- upgrades atomikos to version 3.2.0
- upgrades derby to version 10.3.1.4
- removes dependency on joda-time
Posted at 01:40PM Oct 18, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
Webtide announces the availability for download of release 6.1H.5-beta of Hightide.[Read More]
Posted at 01:39PM Aug 13, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
Hightide is an open source, versioned and optimized distribution of Jetty providing a comprehensive toolset for the development of scalable, state-of-the-art Ajax/JavaEE applications.[Read More]
This release includes significant new features for making Maven-based webapp development even easier.
Posted at 12:22PM Jul 06, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[0]
