A few months back I was given a chance to come work at Webtide and jumped at the chance. Really, given the chance to work with amazing people like the founders of Jetty who could say no to something like that? Jetty has been a component in my development stack Read more…
A patch is now available for the development version of Jetty that introduces some of the proposed features for Servlet 3.0. Key among these is a suspend/resume API on the request object that is a proposed standardization the Jetty Continuation mechanism for asynchronous servlets. The patch is against the 6.2-SNAPSHOT Read more…
The maven webapp archetypes – all with configuration for the handy Jetty maven plugin built in – made available by Webtide have recently been updated to the following versions: Active MQ – 5.0.0 Dojo – 1.0.2 DWR – 2.0.2 JSF – 1.2_07 Spring – 2.5 Struts – 2.0.11 Tapestry – Read more…
Web server clusters are used for scalability (handling more requests), availability (always have a server available) and fault tolerance (handling the failure of a server). Of these, the fault tolerance is the hardest and most costly mechanism to implement as it requires that all session data be replicated off the Read more…
I have published a comet Daily article that describes how I have benchmarked Jetty’s Cometd implementationof dojox Bayeux protocol to 20,000 simultaneous clients. This blog looks at the same results from a more Jetty centric view point. The diagram above shows results of the benchmarking. These results are described in Read more…
The web-2.0 Ajax Comet use-cases have been getting most the attention when it comes to asynchronous features of servlet containers. The Asynchronous features are needed so that a request may wait without a thread allocated while waiting for a comet event to deliver to the Ajax client. However, there are Read more…
This one’s purely in their words… “In summary, we chose Jetty not only because it supports Comet in a scalable manner, but also because the Continuation implementation of Comet is least disruptive to existing Servlet based technologies.” -JJ Zhuang See their full posting with Webtide endorsement here!
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 Read more…
Photacular enables users to create fun, unique products from their photographs with safe, secure, 24/7 online access. Options include T-shirts, mugs, coasters, jewelry, holiday ornaments, canvas prints, and more. All are custom made. Challenges: The company sought to launch an easy to use rich web-based application for customizing photo-based items. Read more…
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.