The Webtide Jetty development team is pleased to announce that we have released Jetty 9.2.0, which is available for download from eclipse or maven central. Along with numerous fixes and improvements, this release has some exciting new features. Java 8
Jetty 9.1.4 Open Sources FastCGI Proxy
I wrote in the past about the support that was added to Jetty 9.1 to proxy HTTP requests to a FastCGI server. A typical configuration to serve PHP applications such as WordPress or Drupal is to put Apache or Nginx
Jetty 9 Quick Start
The auto discovery features of the Servlet specification can make deployments slow and uncertain. Working in collaboration with Google AppEngine, the Jetty team has developed the Jetty quick start mechanism that allows rapid and consistent starting of a Servlet server.
Jetty 9 Modules and Base
Jetty has always been a highly modular project, which can be assembled in an infinite variety of ways to provide exactly the server/client/container that you required. With the recent Jetty 9.1 releases, we have added some tools to greatly improve
How to install JIRA 6.1 in Jetty 9.1
Atlassian JIRA is a very good issue tracking system. Many open source projects use it, including our own CometD project and most notably OpenJDK. While Atlassian supports JIRA on Tomcat, JIRA runs in Jetty as well, and can benefit of
Jetty-9 Iterating Asynchronous Callbacks
While Jetty has internally used asynchronous IO since 7.0, Servlet 3.1 has added asynchronous IO to the application API and Jetty-9.1 now supports asynchronous IO in an unbroken chain from application to socket. Asynchronous APIs can often look intuitively simple,
WordPress & Jetty: perfect fit
I posted a while back about the capability of Jetty 9.1’s HttpClient to speak HTTP over different transports: by default HTTP, but we also provide a SPDY implementation, where the HTTP requests and responses are carried using the SPDY transport
Speaking at Devoxx 2013
Thomas Becker and I will be speaking at Devoxx, presenting two BOFs: HTTP 2.0/SPDY and Jetty in depth and The Jetty Community BOF. The first is a more technical session devoted to the internals of SPDY and HTTP 2.0, while
Pluggable Transports for Jetty 9.1's HttpClient
In Jetty 9, the HttpClient was completely rewritten, as we posted a while back. In Jetty 9.1, we took one step forward and we made Jetty’s HttpClient polyglot. This means that now applications can use the HTTP API and semantic
Servlet 3.1 Asynchronous IO and Jetty-9.1
One of the key features added in the Servlet 3.1 JSR 340 is asynchronous (aka non-blocking) IO. Servlet 3.0 introduced asynchronous servlets, which could suspend request handling to asynchronously handle server-side events. Servlet 3.1 now adds IO with the