Jetty and CometD Expert Services
Introduction The Jetty Project provided to the Java community support for NPN first (the precursor of ALPN) in Java 7, and then support for ALPN in Java 8. The ALPN support was implemented by modifying sun.security.ssl classes, and this required
The Issue The Eclipse Jakarta EE project has not obtained the rights from Oracle to extend the Java EE APIs living in the javax.* package. As such, the Java community is faced with a choice between continuing to use the
If you are using DefaultServlet or ResourceHandler with indexing/listing, then you are vulnerable to a variant of XSS behaviors surrounding the use of injected HTML element attributes on the parent directory link. We recommend disabling indexing/listing or upgrading to a
Jetty 9 introduced the Eat-What-You-Kill[1]The EatWhatYouKill strategy is named after a hunting proverb in the sense that one should only kill to eat. The use of this phrase is not an endorsement of hunting nor killing of wildlife for food
At the Jetty Project we have been getting reports from the community as well as seeing random failures of load tests and benchmarks that were using TLS, and the failures were only happening with Java 11 (any version up to
Jetty and the Java Module System. Java 9 introduced the arguably biggest change in the Java platform since its inception, the Java Module System (a.k.a. Project Jigsaw, or Java Platform Module System – JPMS). The Java Module System primarily targets
The CometD Project is happy to announce the availability of CometD 4.0.0. CometD 4.0.0 builds on top of the CometD 3.1.x series, bringing improvements and new features. You can find a migration guide at the official CometD documentation site. What’s
There has been a tremendous amount of information, and a fair amount of disinformation, coming out over the last several months with regards to Java versioning, the effects of modularization, and how projects like Jetty may or may not respond
Jetty’s venerable MultiPartInputStreamParser for parsing MultiPart form-data has been deprecated and replaced by the much more efficient MultiPartFormInputStream, based on a new MultiPartParser. This is much faster, but less forgiving of non-compliant format. So we have implemented a legacy mode
It’s finally here! Java 9 has officially been released and includes a whole host of changes and new functionality. Jetty, too, has been built with Java 9 over the past few releases as we ramp up support for the new JDK.