The new Jetty 9 HTTP client

Introduction One of the big refactorings in Jetty 9 is the complete rewrite of the HTTP client. The reasons behind the rewrite are many: We wrote the codebase several years ago; while we have actively maintained, it was starting to …

Jetty, SPDY and HAProxy

The SPDY protocol will be the next web revolution. The HTTP-bis working group has been rechartered to use SPDY as the basis for HTTP 2.0, so network and server vendors are starting to update their offerings to include SPDY support. …

Why detecting concurrent issues can be difficult

Jetty 9’s NIO code is  a nearly complete rewrite with improved architecture, cleaner and clearer code base and best of all it’ll be even faster and more efficient than jetty 7/8’s NIO layer. Detecting concurrent code issues is usually not …

SPDY Push Demo from JavaOne 2012

Simone Bordet and I spoke at JavaOne this year about the evolution of web protocol and how HTTP is being replaced by WebSocket (for new semantics) and by SPDY (for better efficiency). The demonstration of SPDY Push is particularly good …

Jetty 9 – Updated WebSocket API

Creating WebSockets in Jetty is even easier with Jetty 9! While the networking gurus in Jetty have been working on the awesome improvements to the I/O layers in core Jetty 9, the WebSocket fanatics in the community have been working …

Jetty 9 – Features

Jetty 9 milestone 0 has landed! We are very excited about getting this release of jetty out and into the hands of everyone. A lot of work as gone into reworking fundamentals and this is going to be the best …

Spend money on free software?

  Here we are with summer coming to an end, the kids going back to school, and lots of software projects yet to complete before year end. What are the options we have for our development projects? Should we buy …

Jetty 9 – it's coming!

Development on Jetty-9 has been chugging along for quite some time now and it looks like we’ll start releasing milestones in around the end of September.  This is exciting because we have a lot of cool improvements and features coming …

HTTP/2.0 Expressions of interest

The IETF HTTPbis Working Group recently called for expressions of interest in the development of the HTTP/2.0 protocol, with SPDY being one of the candidates to use as a basis. As a HTTP server and an early implementer of the …