One of the key features added in the Servlet 3.1 JSR 340 is asynchronous (aka non-blocking) IO. Servlet 3.0 introduced asynchronous servlets, which could suspend request handling to asynchronously handle server-side events. Servlet 3.1 now adds IO with the …
After having some discussions on spdy-dev and having some experience with our current push implementation, we’ve decided to change a few things to the better. Jetty now sends all push resources non interleaved to the client. That means that the …
We have SPDY to SPDY and HTTP to SPDY proxy functionality implemented in Jetty for a while now. An important and very common use case however is a SPDY to HTTP proxy. Imagine a network architecture where network components like …
This blog is an update for jetty-9 of one published for Jetty 7 in 2008 as an example web application that uses Jetty asynchronous HTTP client and the asynchronoous servlets 3.0 API, to call an eBay restful web service. The …
Having discussed the business case for Jetty 9 and SPDY, this blog presents a simple tutorial for runing PHP web applications like WordPress on Jetty with SPDY. Get Jetty First you’ll need a distribution of Jetty, which you can download, …
So you are not Google! Your website is only taking a few 10’s or maybe 100’s of requests a second and your current server is handling it without a blip. So you think you don’t need a faster server and …
The folks at Plumbr have done some interesting data harvesting from the anonymous phone home data provided by the free version of their memory leak detection system. This has allowed them to determine the most popular application servers from their …
I have been working lately with the new JDK 7’s Async I/O APIs (“AIO” from here), and I would like to summarize here my findings, for future reference (mostly my own). My understanding is that the design of the AIO …
Jetty 9.1.0 has entered round 8 of the Techempower’s Web Framework Benchmarks. These benchmarks are a comparison of over 80 framework & server stacks in a variety of load tests. I’m the first one to complain about unrealistic benchmarks when …
Since we discovered how to make Jetty-9 avoid parallel slowdown, we’ve been continuing to work with micro benchmarks and consideration of Mechanical Sympathy to further optimise Jetty-9. As we now about to go to release candidate for Jetty-9, I thought …