The Jetty Project has been trying to to build Jetty using JDK 9 for some time now. We still have a number of things to fix (a few test cases and integration with ASM for class scanning), but overall we have
Building Jetty with JDK 9
Contributing to Open Source (and Jetty !)
Andres Almiray (aalmiray) interviewed me at the JCrete unconference. We spoke about the history of the Jetty project (which is 22 years old – like Java itself), how Jetty has been able to stay on the edge all these years,
CometD and NodeJS, part 2
In our previous blog, we presented the case of a Webtide customer, Genesys, that needed to integrate CometD in NodeJS and how we developed a CometD client capable of running in the NodeJS environment. In this article we present the other
CometD and NodeJS, part 1
In addition to our Lifecycle Support offerings, Webtide is also committed to helping develop new functionality to meet customer needs for the open source projects Webtide supports, CometD and Eclipse Jetty. Recently Genesys, a global leader in customer experience solutions
HTTP Trailers in Jetty
HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 have the concept of trailers, that is HTTP headers that can be sent after the message body, in both requests and responses. In HTTP/1.1 trailers can be sent using the chunked transfer coding, for example in requests
CometD 3.1.0 Released
The CometD Project is happy to announce the availability of CometD 3.1.0. CometD 3.1.0 builds on top of the CometD 3.0.x series, bringing improvements and new features. You can find a migration guide at the official CometD documentation site. What’s
HTTP/2 at JAX
I was invited to speak at the JAX conference in Mainz about HTTP/2. Jetty has always been a front-runner when it’s about web protocols: first with WebSocket, then with SPDY and finally with HTTP/2. We believe that HTTP/2 is going
HTTP/2 with HAProxy and Jetty
HTTP/2 is now the official RFC 7540, and it’s about time to deploy your website on HTTP/2, to get the numerous benefits that HTTP/2 brings. A very typical deployment is to have Apache (or Nginx) working as a reverse proxy
G1 Garbage Collector at GeeCON 2015
I had the pleasure to speak at the GeeCON 2015 Conference in Kraków, Poland, where I presented a HTTP/2 session and a new session about the G1 garbage collector (slides below). G1 Garbage Collector: Details and Tuning from Simone Bordet
Jetty HTTP/2 cleartext upgrade
With the approach of the release candidate for Jetty 9.3.0 in the next days, we have implemented support for HTTP/2 cleartext upgrade mechanism, on server side, resolving issue #465857. This means that you can configure a Jetty server to speak