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
Cin
This case study looks at Cinémathèque from PowerSource Software Pty Ltd. It is a digital interactive entertainment system that embeds Jetty as the backend server for the set top box browser. PowerSource Software is a boutique software developer based in
Interview with Peter Rodgers of 1060 NetKernelTM
This Jetty Case Study takes a look at an intriguing software infrastructure product called 1060 NetKernelTM. Announcing the recent release of version 2 of the product, 1060 Research describes NetKernel as “an advanced service oriented microkernel”. Complex applications are produced
Missing Filter Mapping.
Because I consider some of the “features” of the latest 2.4 specification rather dubious or expensive, I was reluctant to implement them as core features of Jetty. Instead, Jetty 5.1 will use optional filters to provide JSR77 statistics, wrap under
Next Generation Jetty and Servlets
Jetty 5.0.0 is out the door and the 2.4 servlet spec is implemented. So what’s next for Jetty and what’s next for the servlet API? It’s been a long journey for Jetty from it’s birth in late 1995 to the