Less is More? Evolving the Servlet API!

With the release of the Servlet API 5.0 as part of Eclipse Jakarta EE 9.0 the standardization process has completed its move from the now-defunct Java Community Process (JCP) to being fully open source at the Eclipse Foundation, including the new Eclipse EE Specification Process (JESP) and the transition of Read more

By gregw, ago

Introducing Jetty Load Generator

The Jetty Project just released the Jetty Load Generator, a Java 11+ library to load-test any HTTP server, that supports both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2. The project was born in 2016, with specific requirements. At the time, very few load-test tools had support for HTTP/2, but Jetty’s HttpClient did. Furthermore, few Read more

By Simone Bordet, ago

Do Looms Claims Stack Up? Part 2: Thread Pools?

“Project Loom aims to drastically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high-throughput concurrent applications that make the best use of available hardware. … The problem is that the thread, the software unit of concurrency, cannot match the scale of the application domain’s natural units of concurrency — a Read more

By gregw, ago

Eat What You Kill without Starvation!

Jetty 9 introduced the Eat-What-You-Kill[n]The EatWhatYouKill strategy is named after a hunting proverb in the sense that one should only kill to eat. The use of this phrase is not an endorsement of hunting nor killing of wildlife for food or sport.[/n] execution strategy to apply mechanically sympathetic techniques to the Read more

By gregw, ago

CometD and NodeJS, part 2

In our previous blog, we presented the case of a Webtide customer, Genesys, that needed to integrate CometD in NodeJS and how we developed a CometD client capable of running in the NodeJS environment. In this article we present the other side of the solution, that is, how we implemented the Read more

By Simone Bordet, ago

CometD and NodeJS, part 1

In addition to our Lifecycle Support offerings, Webtide is also committed to helping develop new functionality to meet customer needs for the open source projects Webtide supports, CometD and Eclipse Jetty. Recently Genesys, a global leader in customer experience solutions and one of Webtide’s customers, reached out regarding their usage Read more

By Simone Bordet, ago

Jetty-9.3 Features!

Jetty 9.3.0 is almost ready and Release Candidate 1 is available for download and testing!  So this is just a quick blog to introduce you to what is new and encourage you to try it out! HTTP2 The headline feature in Jetty-9.3 is HTTP/2 support. This protocol is now a Read more

By gregw, ago