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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 …

I have ported the cometd java client from Jetty to run on the google android phone.  Cometd implements the bayeux protocol for push messaging over HTTP and is normally used by Ajax clients running in the browser. By porting the …

Open source business plans are tough.  It’s hard to come up with a clear and comprehendable revenue model when you give so much of your work away for free. But those of us who work in open source, must not …

Cloud computing is understandably a hot topic. It refers to the ability to deploy your application on infrastructure that you do not necessarily own nor manage yourself and that can be easily scaled up to handle demand and provide resiliency …

Ta daaaaa! Drum roll please. We are pleased to announce that the first release of i-jetty is available. i-jetty is a port of Jetty to the Google Android phone. This release works with the most recent release – SDK 1.0r1 …

This blog annotates the Jetty 7 example web application (also updated for jetty-9) that uses Jetty asynchronous HTTP client and the proposed suspendable servlets 3.0 API, to call an eBay restful web service.   The technique combines the Jetty asynchronous HTTP …

Webtide has been putting some effort into porting Jetty onto Google’s Android mobile phone platform. We were seduced to expend this effort by the promise from Google that android would provide “a new level of openness”. Yet we may be …

Using  maven to build your project is a fantastic for managing your dependencies and avoiding having dependencies (and their dependencies) checked into your own svn.  The only fly in the ointment, is projects that don’t publish maven artifacts, and the …

Jan and I have run across some annoying problems with test cases and test scoping within jetty recently and it has lead to some discussion on an idea that I have been kicking around for a while.  The problem was …

The nice people at PaperCut were kind enough to talk about their usage of Jetty… and it isn’t minor usage. 10’s of thousands of servers in 60 countries. From small user populations to hundreds of thousands… See their full posting …