Rajiv, the spec lead on JSR-315 has posted his views on the issue of flexible automatic configuration of web applications. Despite my vigorous arguments for flexibility (or perhaps because of them :), I’ve not been able to make the case …
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 …