As with most open source projects, it’s very hard to get a measure of who/how/where/why Jetty is being used a deployed. Downloads long ago became meaningless with the advent of many available bundling and distribution channels. The Netcraft Web Survey is one good measure, as it scans the internet and Read more…
OSGi is a set of specifications published by the OSGi Alliance for modular Java-based services. OSGi has been around for a number of years, and was originally targeted at the network device market, but has increasingly been moving into the enterprise stream, where the ability to compose together diverse modules Read more…
Jesse Mcconnell (of maven background) has joined Webtide. Jesse has been with us for several months now and we are really please to have his experience and skills being applied to the Jetty project and for Webtide clients. Jesse has started a blog, and his first technical entry is a Read more…
Jetty Continuations have been addressing the problem of blocking servlet threads for a while now and the concept is under review for inclusion into the servlet 3.0 spec (due out near the end of the year I believe). With jetty 7.0 under development now one of the big new additions Read more…
A few months back I was given a chance to come work at Webtide and jumped at the chance. Really, given the chance to work with amazing people like the founders of Jetty who could say no to something like that? Jetty has been a component in my development stack Read more…
A patch is now available for the development version of Jetty that introduces some of the proposed features for Servlet 3.0. Key among these is a suspend/resume API on the request object that is a proposed standardization the Jetty Continuation mechanism for asynchronous servlets. The patch is against the 6.2-SNAPSHOT Read more…
Johannes Brodwall is kind enough to highlight his commercial experience in switching to Jetty. His only regret?… not doing it sooner. Link to his experience Please drop us a note if we can help you with advice, support, or custom development to go down this path with the experts backing Read more…
Roberto Chinnici has posted a blog entry discussing the idea of introducing “profiles” in the JavaEE 6 specification(aka JSR-316). Essentially, a profile is a subset of the enormous number of APIs/specs etc that a JavaEE platform supports. Over time, EE platforms have grown in complexity and size, leading to very Read more…
I’ve modified the application is bundled into Jetty on adroid so that instead of a simple "Hello World" message, you can now use the phone’s browser to look at content stored on the phone itself. Here’s a few screen shots to give you the idea. Starting Jetty: The menu options Read more…