Using Java Server Faces, JSTL and Jetty

Until now, Jetty has not provided Java Server Pages Standard Tag Library nor Java Server Faces support with the container. Webapps wishing to use either of these facilities have had to explicitly include the necessary jars in their webapps. With …

Jetty and Glassfish's JSP2.1 implementation

I’ve been looking at Glassfish quite a bit lately, and liking what I see. In particular, I’ve been looking closely at the JSP 2.1 implementation. It appears to be robust and well-tested. My interest was prompted by the number of …

Cometd with Jetty

Cometd is a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus that uses a push technology pattern known as Comet. The term ‘Comet’ was coined by Alex Russell in his post ‘Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser‘. Cometd consists of a protocol …

Async Servlets – take II

I have reconsidered the API for asynchronous servlets that I proposed in my recent blog – it is not good!. It makes some of the same mistakes as weblogic and tomcat have made with their asynchronous extensions. So let’s have …

Introducing Webtide

Mort Bay has been a successful small open source services company for over 10 years. But the business of open source is changing and is there is more demand for support and services from larger organizations. Thus Mort Bay has …

Jetty for AJAX Released During Webtide's Launch

Greg Wilkins and Jan Bartel, the lead developers of Jetty, recently launched Webtide at the O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention 2006 held at the Oregon Convention Center. Webtide, a company specializing in Web 2.0 and AJAX technologies, is a partnership between …

Webtide Gears Up for OSCon

Webtide, a global expert in implementing Ajax Technology, is gearing up for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCon) in Portland, Oregon from July 24 to 28, 2006. At OSCon, Webtide will present its latest product, Hightide. Hightide is a versioned …

An Asynchronous Servlet API?

Now that the 2.5 servlet specification is final, we must start thinking about the next revision and what is needed. I believe that the most important change needed is that the Servlet API must be evolved to support an asynchronous …