I am pleased to announce the availability of the first milestone build of jetty7 @ eclipse! Download Jetty 7.0.0.M0! It has been a crazy few weeks getting all of this together but it finally happened and we crossed a big initial hurdle in our efforts to move through incubation. We Read more…
Jetty-7 is moving to eclipse, cometd-java is moving from jetty to cometd.org and the maven build system for dojo has been moved out of the main dojo tree. So I’m involved in some major refactoring of three interdependent projects at the same time. This refactoring would be impossible to contemplate Read more…
The jetty @ eclipse project is now in incubation at the eclipse foundation as part of the EclipseRT runtime project. On Tuesday 24th March, the Jetty-7 code base was converted to org.eclipse.jetty package space and checked into the eclipse jetty svn repository!!! What is changing? It is only the core Read more…
With the release of the latest cometd-jetty in Jetty 6.1.15, the oft requested feature of reliable message delivery is now supported by the Acknowledged Message Extension in the jetty server and in the dojo and jquery clients. The initial concept of cometd was to provide "web quality" communications between the Read more…
As avid users of jetty are bound to have caught wind of, jetty7 is in the process of migrating to the Eclipse Foundation as a component of the Eclipse Runtime. We even already have our own happy little news group which we need to get into the habit of checking Read more…
The results are in for the Febuary 2009 Netcraft Survey and the news is great for Jetty! In January the sites reported using Jetty was at 258k and this month it is at over 289k! That is an increase of over 31k sites in just a month. Sure results vary Read more…
Mingfai Ma has created a grails cometd plugin that combines grails 1.1, jetty-6.1 and cometd 6.1.12 to provide spring based grails application environment. Because of the great integration between groovy and java, the java server side Bayeux API may be used to subscribe to channels and have messages delivered to Read more…
After my blog on the Servlet 3.0 Public Review, I have been working on an implementation of the Servlet-3.0 asynchronous servlets with some the fixes/extensions I suggested in my previous blog and from some continuing discussion within the EG. Specifically: A new ASYNC DispatcherType for redispatched asynchronous requests The isAsyncStarted() Read more…
JSR-315: JCP Failings JSR-315 has produced a Public Review (PR) of the servlet 3.0 specification, which unfortunately is a poor document and the product of a discordant expert group (EG) working within a flawed process. I know this article will be read as a criticism of my fellow EG members, Read more…