Johannes Brodwall has posted another great description of his techniques dealing with Jetty in everyday development life. It was great to meet him in person finally in Oslo recently, and he definitely has thought through what he does and why, which for your reference, you can find at his blog. Read more…
I had a great conversation recently with Benjamin Kuo at socalTECH.com. Webtide is an extremely distributed organization around the world, but indeed I am located in the heart of Southern California, Los Angeles. It was a good time to talk about current business trends, the business climate, and how things Read more…
Greg Wilkins and Jan Bartel join me for a nice interview with JavaWorld’s Andrew Glover, particularly about Comet support and i-Jetty. Listen in! Podcast Link
Greg’s excellent presentation is now posted in recorded form. Check it out, find out about Jetty’s relation with Eclipse, with OSGi, its continued availability under Apache license, asynchronous servlets and much, much more. Link to Eclipse
March 24-26, Webtide has a booth at EclipseCon in Santa Clara, and is running Birds of a Feather sessions. Have Jetty/servlet, Cometd questions, or just want to actually meet in person? Come on down!
We have always known Jetty is used far and wide. This is the first instance I know of where a governmental watchdog has shut down a project using Jetty on competitive grounds. Not Jetty’s fault, of course, just an industry concentration consideration. As kindly noted, Jetty was the basis of Read more…
Jetty’s use is obviously extremely widespread. Several projects, including Equinox (OSGi) and the IDE at the Eclipse Foundation actually already include versions of Jetty. And now, Jetty as a project has proposed to join that foundation here. Please do take a look at that proposal, and join the linked newsgroup Read more…
The Boy Genius Report has an interesting screenshot with Palm’s new WebOS for the Pre starting up, and showing Jetty… Here’s the image page We’re certainly in favor of Jetty in mobile situations. It is small enough to fit those footprints, and can still get good performance, as we’ve seen Read more…
Last week I noted that people found great performance with “rails 2.2 + jruby + jetty = win” This week, we’re happy to find that the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is shifting its hosted mode from Tomcat to Jetty from Q1 2009. Find their announcement here… GWT Project Link Great!
You may not know, but Jetty is a really common underlying platform for deploying Rails apps. Jan Berkel (no relation to Webtide’s Jan Bartel) found Jetty ran his app more than twice as fast as did Mongrel, and embedded far easier than did Glassfish. Great! Here’s the entry