Greg Wilkins, the lead developer of Jetty and CEO of Webtide, will be speaking at this years The Ajax Experience in Boston. Greg’s presentation is about the challenges of scalably serving Ajax Comet from Java Servlets. The various asynchronous servlet extensions are evaluated and several case studies examined, including the Read more…
Jetty Release 6.0.0 is now available via http://jetty.mortbay.org Jetty 6.x now becomes the stable release of Jetty and the 5.1.x series will now be in security fix only mode after it’s next maintenance release. Jetty 6.x is a major refactoring of the Jetty code base, that combines the best from Read more…
Greg Wilkins, the lead developer of Jetty and CEO of Webtide, will be speaking at this years AJAXWorld Conference. Greg’s presentation is about the challenges of scalably serving Ajax Comet from Java Servlets. The various asynchronous servlet extensions are evaluated and several case studies examined.
Webtide has joined the Open Ajax Alliance. The chief goal of the alliance is to accelerate customer success with Ajax by promoting a customer’s ability to mix and match solutions from Ajax technology providers and by helping to drive the future of the Ajax ecosystem. Among the organizations who have Read more…
Cometd is a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus that uses a push technology pattern known as Comet. The term ‘Comet’ was coined by Alex Russell in his post ‘Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser‘. Cometd consists of a protocol spec called Bayeux, javacript libraries (dojo toolkit), and an event Read more…
I have reconsidered the API for asynchronous servlets that I proposed in my recent blog – it is not good!. It makes some of the same mistakes as weblogic and tomcat have made with their asynchronous extensions. So let’s have a brief review of all the available and proposed solutions. Read more…
Mort Bay has been a successful small open source services company for over 10 years. But the business of open source is changing and is there is more demand for support and services from larger organizations. Thus Mort Bay has partnered with Exist to form Webtide and joined a family Read more…
Greg Wilkins and Jan Bartel, the lead developers of Jetty, recently launched Webtide at the O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention 2006 held at the Oregon Convention Center. Webtide, a company specializing in Web 2.0 and AJAX technologies, is a partnership between Mortbay – the creator of Jetty, the highly regarded open Read more…
Webtide, a global expert in implementing Ajax Technology, is gearing up for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCon) in Portland, Oregon from July 24 to 28, 2006. At OSCon, Webtide will present its latest product, Hightide. Hightide is a versioned distribution of Jetty, which provides a comprehensive toolset for the Read more…
Now that the 2.5 servlet specification is final, we must start thinking about the next revision and what is needed. I believe that the most important change needed is that the Servlet API must be evolved to support an asynchronous model. I see 5 main use-cases for asynchronous servlets: Non-blocking Read more…