CometD Introduction

The CometD project provides tools to write server-side event-driven web applications. This kind of web application is becoming more popular, thanks to the fact that browsers have become truly powerful (JavaScript performance problems are now a relic of the past) …

CometD 2.1.1 Released

CometD 2.1.1 has been released. This is a minor bug fix release that updates the JavaScript toolkits to Dojo 1.6.0 and jQuery 1.5.1, and Jetty to 7.3.1 and 6.1.26. Enjoy !

Is WebSocket Chat Simpler?

A year ago I wrote an article asking Is WebSocket Chat Simple?, where I highlighted the deficiencies of this much touted protocol for implementing simple comet applications like chat. After a year of intense debate there have been many changes …

CometD 1.1.4 Released

CometD 1.1.4 has been released. This is a minor release that updates the JavaScript toolkits to Dojo 1.6.0 and jQuery 1.5.1, and Jetty to 7.3.1 and 6.1.26. Enjoy !

Cometd with annotations

Cometd 2.1 now supports annotations to define cometd services and clients.  Annotations greatly reduces the boiler plate code required to write a cometd service and also links well with new cometd 2.x features such as channel initializers and Authorizers, so …

Webtide blogs @ Intalio

The webtide blogs are moving to http://webtide.intalio.com.  All new postings from the jetty  & cometd team will be made here and over time we will move the content from the old site as well.

Cometd with Annotations

  Cometd 2.1 now supports annotations to define cometd services and clients.  Annotations greatly reduces the boiler plate code required to write a cometd service and also links well with new cometd 2.x features such as channel initializers and Authorizers, …

Jetty WTP Adaptor

Not too long ago we had a contribution from Angelo Zerr that gave jetty a native WTP adaptor. We are happy to announce its availability now! Shockingly, there is some documentation for this plugin, based on the original documentation provided …

Jetty @ Eclipse Summit Europe

I have presented the advanced features of Jetty at the Eclipse Summit Europe 2010. Highlights of the features that I presented are: Jetty & OSGi, showing the full integration of Jetty with the OSGi world Jetty’s asynchronous HTTP client Jetty’s …

Comet Panel Video

In July I participated in London to the Comet Panel, organized by the London Ajax User Group. Me and a bunch of other Comet experts talked about our own Comet projects, and I talked about CometD. Here you can watch …