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If you’re looking for a fast and easy way to run your webapp, without needing to install and administer a Jetty distro, then look no further, the Jetty Runner is here! The idea of the Jetty Runner is extremely simple …

As I have previously blogged, asynchronous coding is hard! The suspend proposal for Servlet 3.0 does take a lot of the pain out of asynchronous programming, but not all.  It has been pointed out, that my own async examples make …

The expert group for JSR 315 (servlet-3.0) has come to a bit of an impasse regarding some new features for auto discovery of servlets and filters.   Some members of the EG have some security/flexibility concerns regarding these features, but others …

Pre-release 0 of Jetty 7.0.0 is now available and includes a preview of the proposed Servlet 3.0 API for asynchronous servlets. This blog looks at 4 cool things you can do with asynchronous servlets and how they can be implemented …

The trunk of jetty has undergone some substantial changes over the last couple of weeks.  In addition to jetty 7 now requiring a minimum version of jdk 1.5 and the default inclusion of the early servlet 3.0 spec, there have …

In one of those cosmic coincidences, no sooner do I blog about OSGi and J2EE containers, but Glassfish announces that they are moving to OSGi. As OSGi gains more attention in the enterprise, the future is looking very interesting for …

As with most open source projects, it’s very hard to get a measure of who/how/where/why Jetty is being used a deployed.  Downloads long ago became meaningless with the advent of many available bundling and distribution channels.   The Netcraft Web Survey …

OSGi is a set of specifications published by the OSGi Alliance  for modular Java-based services. OSGi has been around for a number of years, and was originally targeted at the network device market, but has increasingly been moving into the …

Jesse Mcconnell (of maven background) has joined Webtide.  Jesse has been with us for several months now and we are really please to have his experience and skills being applied to the Jetty project and for Webtide clients. Jesse has …

Jetty Continuations have been addressing the problem of blocking servlet threads for a while now and the concept is under review for inclusion into the servlet 3.0 spec (due out near the end of the year I believe). With jetty …