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• 2 Jul 2009 :
  Continuations to Continue
  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).
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• 13 Jun 2009:
  Google Wave - A new paradigm?
  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.
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