Java’s Virtual Threads (aka Project Loom or JEP 444) have arrived as a full platform feature in Java 21, which has generated considerable interest and many projects (including Eclipse Jetty) are adding support. I have previously been somewhat skeptical about how significant any advantages Virtual Threads actually have over Platform Read more…
Now that Jetty 12.0.1 is released to Maven Central, we’ve started to get a few questions about where some artifacts are, or when we intend to release them (as folks cannot find them). Things have change with Jetty, starting with the 12.0.0 release. First, is that our historical versioning of Read more…
For the last 18 months, Webtide engineers have been working on the most extensive overhaul of the Eclipse Jetty HTTP server and Servlet container since its inception in 1995. The headline for the release of Jetty 12.0.0 could be “Support for the Servlet 6.0 API from Jakarta EE 10“, but Read more…
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…
Recently, I’ve been investigating some test failures that I only experienced on my own machine, which happens to run some flavor of Linux. Investigating those failures, I ran down a rabbit hole that involves Unix, Unicode, Java, filesystems, internationalization and normalization. Here is the story of what I found down Read more…
With the recent release of JakartaEE9, the future for Java has never been brighter. In addition to headline projects moving forward into the new jakarta.* namespace, there has been a tremendous amount of work done throughout the community to stay at the forefront of the changing landscape. These efforts are Read more…
“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…
Since Loom is now available in OpenJDK 16 early access includes, we thought it was a good time to test out some of the amazing claims that have been made for Duke’s new opaque clothing that has been woven by Loom! Spoiler – Duke might not be naked, but its attire could be a tad see-through!
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…
There has been a tremendous amount of information, and a fair amount of disinformation, coming out over the last several months with regards to Java versioning, the effects of modularization, and how projects like Jetty may or may not respond to them. In light of that, we wanted to more comprehensively Read more…