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
Global firm extends free open source training to Filipinos
EXIST Engineering, a global company founded by a Filipino, is providing open source technology training in Manila this month, INQ7.net learned. In an e-mailed advistory, the company founded by Winston Damarillo, former Intel Capital venture capitalist executive, is offering free
Former Intel Capital VC exec seeds tech firms in RP
WINSTON Damarillo, a former venture capitalist working at Intel Capital, is set to open more companies in the Philippines that would be involved in open source software development. Damarillo is currently running a company called Exist engaged in open source
Extending the Maven Plugin Classpath at Runtime
This may not be too revolutionary, but I’ve spent enough time googling and asking questions on the Maven lists to believe that there isn’t a lot of information out there about topic so I thought I’d document it in a
Scaling Connections for AJAX with Jetty 6
With most web applications today, the number of simultaneous users can greatly exceed the number of connections to the server. This is because connections can be closed during the frequent pauses in the conversation while the user reads the content
Jetty 6.0 Continuations – AJAX Ready!
The 6.0.0alpha3 release of Jetty is now available and provides a 2.4 servlet server in 400k jar, with only 140k of dependencies (2.6M more if you want JSP!!!). But as well as being small, fast, clean and sexy, Jetty 6