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Webtide’s freely dowloadable collection of maven archetypes for popular web frameworks has been updated to reflect the most recent release of each framework. The frameworks supported are: ActiveMQ DOJO DWR JSF SiteMesh Spring Spring JPA Struts Tapestry WebWork Wicket     **New** …

Greg Wilkins will be speaking at the Ajax Experience in San Francisco 25-27 July on the subject of Ajax Comet Communications: The Bayeux protocol and standardization efforts from the Open Ajax Alliance. Communications for Comet (or Ajax Push) remain a …

Release 6.1H.4-beta of Hightide is available for download at: http://www.webtide.com/downloads.jsp. Hightide is an open source, versioned and optimized distribution of Jetty providing a comprehensive toolset for the development of scalable, state-of-the-art web 2.0/JavaEE applications. New features in this release include: …

The Ajaxian has covered a study of push vs pull Ajax  communication techniques. The original report was produced by Delft University. I welcome this report as a good start on objectively measuring the communication techniques needed for web 2.0 applications, …

The Java Community Process has proposed JSR-315 to consider the 3.0 servlet specification. In this blog entry, I look at the Async and Comet considerations listed in the JSR-315 and discuss how 3.0 servlets might address them. From JSR-315 – …

I’m just fresh out of a session at JavaOne where Sun have revealed their road map for the servlet 3.0 specification. My initial reaction is that it contains both some good and bad items as well as quite a few …

Terracotta is an infrastructure that allows you to pretty much transparently cluster any code in a jvm. We’ve already successfully used it to cluster the channels in Jetty’s Bayeux (aka Cometd) implementation, so we thought it was high time we …

Jetty has a sexy new plugin for Ant that has the same features as the Maven plugin. So if you didn’t want to move from Ant to Maven, but you still want fast webapp development, now you can have it! …

Jetty now supports annotations on managed beans with Sun’s JSF RI version 1.2_04. For the curious, the magic happens in the Jetty6InjectionProvider class that is distributed in the RI jars. However, that’s just an implementation detail. All you need to …