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The trunk of jetty has undergone some substantial changes over the last couple of weeks.  In addition to jetty 7 now requiring a minimum version of jdk 1.5 and the default inclusion of the early servlet 3.0 spec, there have

In one of those cosmic coincidences, no sooner do I blog about OSGi and J2EE containers, but Glassfish announces that they are moving to OSGi. As OSGi gains more attention in the enterprise, the future is looking very interesting for

As with most open source projects, it’s very hard to get a measure of who/how/where/why Jetty is being used a deployed.  Downloads long ago became meaningless with the advent of many available bundling and distribution channels.   The Netcraft Web Survey

OSGi is a set of specifications published by the OSGi Alliance  for modular Java-based services. OSGi has been around for a number of years, and was originally targeted at the network device market, but has increasingly been moving into the

Jesse Mcconnell (of maven background) has joined Webtide.  Jesse has been with us for several months now and we are really please to have his experience and skills being applied to the Jetty project and for Webtide clients. Jesse has

Jetty Continuations have been addressing the problem of blocking servlet threads for a while now and the concept is under review for inclusion into the servlet 3.0 spec (due out near the end of the year I believe). With jetty

A few months back I was given a chance to come work at Webtide and jumped at the chance.  Really, given the chance to work with amazing people like the founders of Jetty who could say no to something like

A patch is now available for the development version of Jetty that introduces some of the proposed features for Servlet 3.0.  Key among these is a suspend/resume API on the request object that is a proposed standardization the Jetty Continuation

Johannes Brodwall is kind enough to highlight his commercial experience in switching to Jetty. His only regret?… not doing it sooner. Link to his experience Please drop us a note if we can help you with advice, support, or custom

Roberto Chinnici has posted a blog entry discussing the idea of introducing “profiles” in the JavaEE 6 specification(aka JSR-316). Essentially, a profile is a subset of the enormous number of APIs/specs etc that a JavaEE platform supports. Over time, EE