i-jetty 3.1 Released

Release 3.1 of i-jetty for Android is now available from the Android Market and the i-jetty download page. This release updates the embedded Jetty to jetty-7.6.0.RC4, although the majority of the changes have been to the Console, which is a webapp that allows you to interact with your Android device Read more…

mvn jetty:run-forked

Being able to run the jetty maven plugin on your webapp – but in a freshly forked jvm – is a feature that has been requested for a loooong time. With jetty-7.5.2 release, this feature has been implemented, and it even works on your unassembled webapp. How to Run mvn Read more…

GWT and JNDI

Many folks want to use some features beyond the bare servlet basics with GWT, such as JNDI lookups. It’s not hard to set up, but there are a couple of steps to it so here’s a detailed guide. Since GWT switched to using Jetty for its hosted mode (also known Read more…

Google Just Doesn't Understand Community

We’ve said it before (Bad Robot!), but after the Android 2.0/Nexus One developments, it really bears repeating: Google either do not understand or do not care about community once their immediate corporate goals have been met. In the Bad Robot! blog, Greg commented on the disparity between Google’s talk of Read more…

Jetty, JPL and the Mars Rovers

In what has to be one of the coolest ever uses of Jetty, JPL are using Jetty for missions operations planning on the Mars rovers!!! Khawaja Shams from the JPL Operations Planning Software team dropped by the Webtide booth at EclipseCon and just blew us all away with this news. Read more…

i-jetty Release 2.0

Release 2.0 of Jetty for Android (i-jetty) is now available in src and binary form from i-jetty downloads. This release is the first to also be available (for free) on the Android Marketplace. To download from the Marketplace, you’ll need to have an Android handset. You’ll find i-jetty under the Read more…

Fujitsu – Android Everywhere ?!

Interesting development – Fujitsu announced recently that they will be offering a service to deploy Android onto all different types of hardware. This potentially opens up interesting opportunities for smart software on a whole range of devices, not just mobile handsets. As Jetty is already running on Android, we could Read more…

Jetty and Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is understandably a hot topic. It refers to the ability to deploy your application on infrastructure that you do not necessarily own nor manage yourself and that can be easily scaled up to handle demand and provide resiliency to failure. The hardware infrastructure can be composed of clusters Read more…

i-jetty 1.0 release

Ta daaaaa! Drum roll please. We are pleased to announce that the first release of i-jetty is available. i-jetty is a port of Jetty to the Google Android phone. This release works with the most recent release – SDK 1.0r1 – of the Android platform. Go to http://code.google.com/p/i-jetty/ and follow Read more…