EXIST Engineering, a global company founded by a Filipino, is providing open source technology training in Manila this month, INQ7.net learned. In an e-mailed advistory, the company founded by Winston Damarillo, former Intel Capital venture capitalist executive, is offering free training on Ajax, Comet and Jetty technologies on May 6, Read more…
WINSTON Damarillo, a former venture capitalist working at Intel Capital, is set to open more companies in the Philippines that would be involved in open source software development. Damarillo is currently running a company called Exist engaged in open source software development. Currently its chairman since its inception in 2001, Read more…
With most web applications today, the number of simultaneous users can greatly exceed the number of connections to the server. This is because connections can be closed during the frequent pauses in the conversation while the user reads the content or completes in a form. Thousands of users can be Read more…
The 6.0.0alpha3 release of Jetty is now available and provides a 2.4 servlet server in 400k jar, with only 140k of dependencies (2.6M more if you want JSP!!!). But as well as being small, fast, clean and sexy, Jetty 6 supports a new feature called Continuations that will allow scalable Read more…
This case study looks at Cinémathèque from PowerSource Software Pty Ltd. It is a digital interactive entertainment system that embeds Jetty as the backend server for the set top box browser. PowerSource Software is a boutique software developer based in Sydney, Australia. The company has particular expertise in several interesting Read more…
This Jetty Case Study takes a look at an intriguing software infrastructure product called 1060 NetKernelTM. Announcing the recent release of version 2 of the product, 1060 Research describes NetKernel as “an advanced service oriented microkernel”. Complex applications are produced by creating simple services and then aggregating or pipelining them Read more…
Because I consider some of the “features” of the latest 2.4 specification rather dubious or expensive, I was reluctant to implement them as core features of Jetty. Instead, Jetty 5.1 will use optional filters to provide JSR77 statistics, wrap under dispatch semantics, request events and request attribute events. Thus Jetty Read more…
Jetty 5.0.0 is out the door and the 2.4 servlet spec is implemented. So what’s next for Jetty and what’s next for the servlet API? It’s been a long journey for Jetty from it’s birth in late 1995 to the 5.0.0 release. When the core of Jetty was written, there Read more…
Christopher Merrill of Web Performance Inc has release a report of Servlet Performance, which included Jetty. Firstly it is good to see somebody again tackling the difficult task of benchmarking servlet containers. It is a difficult task and will always draw criticism and the results will always be disputed. The Read more…
This casestudy describes how Jetty has been used on our own sites, to show that we are “eating our own dogfood”. While there is nothing revolutionary in this blog, it is sometimes good to see examples of the ordinary and I believe it is a good example of how the Read more…