Jetty Runner

If you’re looking for a fast and easy way to run your webapp, without needing to install and administer a Jetty distro, then look no further, the Jetty Runner is here! The idea of the Jetty Runner is extremely simple – run a webapp from the command line using a Read more…

Glassfish and OSGi … and Jetty?

In one of those cosmic coincidences, no sooner do I blog about OSGi and J2EE containers, but Glassfish announces that they are moving to OSGi. As OSGi gains more attention in the enterprise, the future is looking very interesting for Jetty, as we are hands-down the most popular servlet engine Read more…

Jetty and OSGi

OSGi is a set of specifications published by the OSGi Alliance  for modular Java-based services. OSGi has been around for a number of years, and was originally targeted at the network device market, but has increasingly been moving into the enterprise stream, where the ability to compose together diverse modules Read more…

Java EE 6 Web Profile

Roberto Chinnici has posted a blog entry discussing the idea of introducing “profiles” in the JavaEE 6 specification(aka JSR-316). Essentially, a profile is a subset of the enormous number of APIs/specs etc that a JavaEE platform supports. Over time, EE platforms have grown in complexity and size, leading to very Read more…

Jetty Does Android – Update

I’ve modified the application is bundled into  Jetty  on adroid so that instead of a simple "Hello World" message,  you can now use the phone’s browser to look at content stored on the phone itself. Here’s a few screen shots to give you the idea. Starting Jetty: The menu options Read more…

Jetty Does Android

I’ve recently been working on porting Jetty to Google’s mobile platform called Android. It’s early days still, but I’ve succeeded in running a minimal setup with a connector (I’ve tested both bio and nio connectors) and a simple Handler. If you’d like to take a look, then check out the Read more…

Eclifox

I just came across a very cool use of Jetty. The folks at IBM alphaWorks have come up with an Eclipse plugin that translates your Eclipse UI into XUL and vice-versa so that you can effectively use your Eclipse from your (Mozilla-based) web browser! Jetty is the servlet engine providing Read more…

Jetty Eclipse Plugin

Version 1.0.1 of the Jetty Plugin for Eclipse is available from: www.webtide.com/eclipse/ This minor release fixes a problem whereby the automatic redeploy of a Dynamic Webapp project by the Eclipse environment did not trigger Jetty to redeploy.

Jetty Session Clustering with Terracotta

Terracotta is an infrastructure that allows you to pretty much transparently cluster any code in a jvm. We’ve already successfully used it to cluster the channels in Jetty’s Bayeux (aka Cometd) implementation, so we thought it was high time we used it to cluster HTTP sessions. Jetty already has a Read more…

Jetty Ant Plugin

Jetty has a sexy new plugin for Ant that has the same features as the Maven plugin. So if you didn’t want to move from Ant to Maven, but you still want fast webapp development, now you can have it! The Jetty Maven plugin greatly shortens your development cycle by Read more…