Servlet 3.0 Public Review

JSR-315: JCP Failings JSR-315 has produced a Public Review (PR) of the servlet 3.0 specification, which unfortunately is a poor document and the product of a discordant expert group (EG) working within a flawed process.  I  know this article will …

GWT Hosted Mode Moving to Jetty

Last week I noted that people found great performance with “rails 2.2 + jruby + jetty = win” This week, we’re happy to find that the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is shifting its hosted mode from Tomcat to Jetty from …

Cometd + Wicket

First off, I think I like wicket, its a pretty neat framework and it has some pretty solid integration with ajax which is interesting. I have to say though that having spent a lot of time on the whole long …

"rails 2.2 + jruby + jetty = win"

You may not know, but Jetty is a really common underlying platform for deploying Rails apps. Jan Berkel (no relation to Webtide’s Jan Bartel) found Jetty ran his app more than twice as fast as did Mongrel, and embedded far …

Scalable BlazeDS with async Jetty

Valery Silaev has pointed me to an article on flex.sys-con.com that demonstrates how the asynchronous features of Jetty have been used by Farata Systems to achieve some excellent scalability results with BlazeDS. BlazeDS is an open source server side that …

Release 1.1 of i-jetty for Google Android

To coincide with the first availability of the Android handsets, we’ve released version 1.1 of i-jetty. This release has a lot of improvements in it and some rather cool new features. One of the improvements we’ve made is to add …

Safari Caching and Embedding Jetty

I ran across a curious issue with safari recently related to caching. I opened it as an issue with Apple because I think its a nasty little issue, and I added it to the jetty wiki recently but I figured …

ApacheCon 2008 – New Orleans

Well, the blog seems to have moved to its new site successfully so its time to start adding some more entries up now and then. First and foremost I want to extend an invitation to users of jetty to meet …