I’ve recently been working on porting Jetty to Google’s mobile platform called Android. It’s early days still, but I’ve succeeded in running a minimal setup with a connector (I’ve tested both bio and nio connectors) and a simple Handler. If you’d like to take a look, then check out the Read more…
Based on Greg’s earlier benchmarking on Amazon EC2 nodes. Good stuff! It is great to demonstrate that open approaches can yield the best performance. InfoQ Link
A great endorsement of the performance of Jetty for Ajax apps. (and of course, for the help Webtide can provide). Application Development Trends article link Zimbra’s blog entry on the subject. Zimbra serves millions of users, and we’re proud to work with them. Webtide’s services and support help many companies Read more…
The maven webapp archetypes – all with configuration for the handy Jetty maven plugin built in – made available by Webtide have recently been updated to the following versions: Active MQ – 5.0.0 Dojo – 1.0.2 DWR – 2.0.2 JSF – 1.2_07 Spring – 2.5 Struts – 2.0.11 Tapestry – Read more…
Web server clusters are used for scalability (handling more requests), availability (always have a server available) and fault tolerance (handling the failure of a server). Of these, the fault tolerance is the hardest and most costly mechanism to implement as it requires that all session data be replicated off the Read more…
I have published a comet Daily article that describes how I have benchmarked Jetty’s Cometd implementationof dojox Bayeux protocol to 20,000 simultaneous clients. This blog looks at the same results from a more Jetty centric view point. The diagram above shows results of the benchmarking. These results are described in Read more…
The web-2.0 Ajax Comet use-cases have been getting most the attention when it comes to asynchronous features of servlet containers. The Asynchronous features are needed so that a request may wait without a thread allocated while waiting for a comet event to deliver to the Ajax client. However, there are Read more…
This one’s purely in their words… “In summary, we chose Jetty not only because it supports Comet in a scalable manner, but also because the Continuation implementation of Comet is least disruptive to existing Servlet based technologies.” -JJ Zhuang See their full posting with Webtide endorsement here!
Making a name for online image search Polar Rose’s unique technology gives greater meaning and context to digital photos by allowing them to be indexed online just like text documents. The company developer user friendly, fun, useful, transparent applications that have evolved from computer vision research at the Universities of Read more…
Photacular enables users to create fun, unique products from their photographs with safe, secure, 24/7 online access. Options include T-shirts, mugs, coasters, jewelry, holiday ornaments, canvas prints, and more. All are custom made. Challenges: The company sought to launch an easy to use rich web-based application for customizing photo-based items. Read more…