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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

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

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

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

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

Christopher Merrill of Web Performance Inc has release a report of Servlet Performance, which included Jetty. Firstly it is good to see somebody again tackling the difficult task of benchmarking servlet containers. It is a difficult task and will always

This casestudy describes how Jetty has been used on our own sites, to show that we are “eating our own dogfood”. While there is nothing revolutionary in this blog, it is sometimes good to see examples of the ordinary and

I have finally seen the JSP light! I think I actually like them and I will have to stop pouring scorn upon them (and all who use them)! So maybe 2004 is a bit late to be blogging about the

The problem with the current breed of HTTP servlet session distribution mechanisms is that they do not scale well. I have just tried the first release of WADI ‘Web Application Distribution Infrastructure’, and it shows great promise as a next-generation

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