When I was systems administrator for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte department of Computer Science, I saw the need to establish an environment for our students to experiment with servlets. The goal was to provide a centralized system
Filters vs Aspects
Web Application Filters were added to the 2.3 Servlet specification and have been enhanced in the just finalised 2.4 spec. Filters allow cross cutting concerns to be applied to a web application, which is exactly the gig of Aspect Oriented
NIO and the Servlet API.
Taylor Crown has written a short paper regarding Combining the Servlet API and NIO, which has been briefly discussed on the serverside. NIO Servlets have often been discussed as the holy grail of java web application performance. The promise of
Servlets must DIE! – Slowly
Now that the 2.4 servlet spec is final, I believe the time is right to start considering the end of life for the API. This may sound a little strange coming from somebody on the JSR and who has spent
Open source Closed Project
This is a repost of an old old blog entry that has become relevant again. I was hoping to make my next entry one of a technical nature, but the JBoss™ Group have just asked me to remove the JBoss™
Jetty and OSGI at Eclipse
The last several months have brought a lot oof hangs with the jetty OSGI bits and piecesa of things at eclipse. We have finally standardized the way we distribute our binaries within our various p2 repositories. We have a honest
Lazy Cometd Messages
Lazy Messages
Project Oort – a cometd cluster
Cometd Oort is extension to the jetty/java cometd server intended to provide a scalable comet cluster. Cometd Seti is an extension of Oort to enable the identification and location of connected users within an Oort cluster and the routing of