This blog updates the roadmap for jetty-6, jetty-7 and jetty-8 with the latest plans resulting from the move to the Eclipse Foundation and the delay in the servlet-3.0 specification. Previously it was intended that jetty-7 was going to be servlet-3.0, but with the move to eclipse and with the delay Read more
I really like the idea behind the HTML5 Websocket API – namely that a datagram model should be used for web application communication rather than a request/response paradigm (this is also the idea behind cometd). But unfortunately, the proposed protocol to carry websocket traffic is neither a good protocol nor Read more
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 Read more
For SnoracleZero (aka Java One) this year, we are planning a social get together of Jetty users and Webtide clients 8pm Tuesday (June 2). If you’d like to come along, email javaone@webtide.com and we’ll pick a venue depending on the estimated numbers. See you there!
In my December 2008 blog, I strongly criticised the Servlet 3.0 JSR-315 process and the resulting Public Review Draft, describing it as a: “poor document and the product of a discordant expert group (EG) working within a flawed process” and of producing a “Frankenstein monster, cobbled together from eviscerated good Read more
For the last couple of jetty @ eclipse releases I have been working with getting a bit more used to the eclipse way of doing things. One of those ‘eclipse way’ deals is the p2 update site and I am announcing here the availability of a certain subset of jetty Read more
JJ Zhuang of Yahoo!’s Zimbra division has posted up the architecture of their offline user client. It makes innovative use, or should I say re-use of their server code to present a seamless experience for desktop users regardless of connection state. He says they did this, with Jetty underpinning, for Read more
I’ll be giving a webinar on Jetty @ eclipse April 27 – 1:00 pm PDT / 4:00 pm EDT / 8:00 pm GMT. The presentation will be a mixed bag of some project overview/status, some drill downs into some key features and some hopefully cool demonstrations. For details visit http://live.eclipse.org/. Read more
Hot on the heels of Google Widget Toolkit(GWT) switching to Jetty, the little server that can has received some more Google luv’n! Google’s new App Engine Java service is powered by Jetty! With App Engine, you can build web applications using standard Java technologies and run them on Google’s Read more
I have had a lot of inquiries about what is going on with the latest versions of jetty being talked about and what they mean to our users so I figured I would give clearing it up a shot. Greg has recently updated the about page on the jetty eclipse Read more