The Ajax and Comet Server
Webtide, the Java experts behind Jetty
 
 
Company Background

Webtide are the main developers of Jetty, the highly regarded open source Java web container and are experts in implementing scalable Web 2.0 solutions using Jetty and other Ajax technology.

Webtide engineers are core developers or contributors to Dojo Cometd, Apache Geronimo, Glassfish, Maven, ActiveMQ, Cargo, Agila, ServiceMix, Jetspeed, WADI, and a host of other open source projects. Webtide offers its worldwide clientele training, development, and support.

Management Team

Adam Lieber
Chief Executive Officer

Adam Lieber is the CEO of Webtide. Adam was a co-founder of Gluecode Software, one of the early open source software companies and delivered solutions to numerous industries and served as Gluecode's representative on OASIS. After Gluecode's acquisition by IBM, Adam ran worldwide sales for open source middleware for IBM.

Prior to Gluecode, Adam was at the IT-focused venture capital fund Mission Ventures.

Adam received his A.B. in Economics concentration, with Computer Science from Princeton University.

Greg Wilkins
Chief Technical Officer

Greg Wilkins is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and one of the founding CEO of Webtide. He was also a founder and CEO of Mort Bay Consulting.

Greg has deep knowledge of all facets of software development. He has, 22 years experience as a software developer, team leader, architect, trainer, and technical mentor in industry sectors ranging from telecommunications, finance, realtime computing to internet applications.

He is closely involved with the open source movement, being the creator of the Jetty web container, a co-founder of Apache Geronimo, and a committer or contributor to a number of other open source projects. Greg sits on the JCP Servlet Expert Group and is active in the Open Ajax Alliance.

Greg received his B.S. Computer Science Degree with 1st Class Honors from Sydney University, Australia.

Jan Bartel
Chief Engineer

Jan Bartel is the Chief Engineer and one of the co-founders of Webtide, and Mort Bay Consulting.

She has extensive industry experience as a team leader and consultant, working with java, J2EE, and other key related technologies. She is a contributor and committer to a number of open source projects in addition to Jetty, of which she is one of the project leaders.

During her 20 year career, she has delivered both client-side and server-side applications in industry sectors as diverse as online services, telecommunications, and banking and finance.

Jan received her B.A and M.A (Pass) degrees in Computer Science from Sydney University, Australia.

 
 
News & Blogs

Dojo Toolkit Maven Repository
Using  maven to build your project is a fantastic for managing your dependencies and avoiding having dependencies (and their dependencies) checked into your own svn.  The only fly in the ointment, is projects that don't publish maven artifacts, and the Ajax dojo toolkit has been one of these. Until now that is!

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jetty-test-servers
Jan and I have run across some annoying problems with test cases and test scoping within jetty recently and it has lead to some discussion on an idea that I have been kicking around for a while.  The problem was that we have some useful test cases which are in the form of jetty server configurations in the jetty module and maybe a couple of other module, but since they are test source they are not readily available for consumption in other modules.

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Jetty Deployed Around the World

The nice people at PaperCut were kind enough to talk about their usage of Jetty... and it isn't minor usage. 10's of thousands of servers in 60 countries. From small user populations to hundreds of thousands...

See their full posting here!

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JSR-315 Needs You II
Rajiv, the spec lead on JSR-315 has posted his views on the issue of flexible automatic configuration of web applications.  Despite vigorous arguments for flexibility (or perhaps because of them), I've not been able to make the case with those opposed to selective enabling of auto configuration....

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JavaOne
Hope to see you there. Webtide has a booth #1224-4!

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Jetty Runner
If you're looking for a fast and easy way to run your webapp, without needing to install and administer a Jetty distro, then look no further, the Jetty Runner is here! The idea of the Jetty Runner is extremely simple - run a webapp from the command line using a single jar and as much default configuration as possible:
  java -jar jetty-runner.jar my.war
Voila! Jetty will start on port 8080 and deploy the my.war webapp.

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Careers

WebTide has a team of smart and fun people, and offers a great opportunity to its team members. The company has the following open positions.

- Sales Engineer
- Software Deployment Engineer
- Software Engineers
- UI Engineers

If you are interested, please send your updated resume to hr@webtide.com.