Combining Javascript and CSS content

At the Rich Web Experience conference this week, there were many talks about performance and tools like ySlow. Everybody acknowledges that downloading lots of javascript and css with multiple script or link tags is a key reason that Ajax sites …

New Jetty Plugin for Eclipse WST

The Eclipse Web Standard Tools project extends the Eclipse platform with many useful tools for building and testing web applications. Webtide has made available a plugin which allows developers to use Jetty within the WST environment. A Jetty instance can …

Clustering Jetty with Terracotta Webcast

Join Webtide and Terracotta on Wednesday 29th August at 1.00pm Pacific Daylight Time for a joint webcast on why and how to cluster Jetty with Terracotta. Signup at: https://terracottatech.webex.com/terracottatech/j.php?ED=94642882&UID=0

Hightide Release 6.1H.5-beta

Release 6.1H.5-beta of Hightide is ready for download from: http://www.webtide.com/downloads.jsp This release upgrades: + jetty to version 6.1.5 + atomikos to version 3.1.7 This release fixes: + a cometd bug with duplicated subscription messages This release introduces: + rpm installables

Jetty Powers Sybase SPEC

Sybase has published some SPEC® jAppServer2004 results for their Jetty powered EAServer showing excellent performance results against websphere and weblogic. Sybases EAServer JEE application server  uses Jetty as the webtier, with the latest releases using Jetty-6 to provide 2.5 servlet …

Support for Support

Matt Asay suggests that many companies get great value by supplementing the support they can get from public open source support lists by budgeting for professional support. See his discussion at Matt’s blog. Certainly in agreement here. Beyond that, though, …

Jetty Release 6.1.5

This release is only available from Codehaus and the MortBay site. For more information, please see: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Downloading+and+Installing This release includes a few minor fixes and some good improvements and few new features, including: RPMs, OSGi manifests, graceful shutdown and a …

Comet Performance

In response to the recent discussion of push v pull Ajax performance, I decided to do some performance testing of the Jetty implementation of bayeux for the cometd project. This was also a great way to test the  asynchronous http …

Async Servlet 3.0 Proposal

A recently blogged about my thoughts on the JSR-315 Asynchronous servlet 3.0 concerns. I have now worked those thoughts into a proposal that I have submitted to the expert group. This proposal is clearly influenced by Jetty Continuations in that …