Matt Asay suggests that many companies get great value by supplementing the support they can get from public open source support lists by budgeting for professional support. See his discussion at Matt’s blog. Certainly in agreement here. Beyond that, though, at Webtide, we find that our clients value not just Read more…
This release is only available from Codehaus and the MortBay site. For more information, please see: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Downloading+and+Installing This release includes a few minor fixes and some good improvements and few new features, including: RPMs, OSGi manifests, graceful shutdown and a new gzip filter. The ant module jar, the RPMs and Read more…
In response to the recent discussion of push v pull Ajax performance, I decided to do some performance testing of the Jetty implementation of bayeux for the cometd project. This was also a great way to test the asynchronous http client that is now included with Jetty. The test scenarios Read more…
A recently blogged about my thoughts on the JSR-315 Asynchronous servlet 3.0 concerns. I have now worked those thoughts into a proposal that I have submitted to the expert group. This proposal is clearly influenced by Jetty Continuations in that it allows requests handling to be suspended and resumed. However Read more…
Webtide’s freely dowloadable collection of maven archetypes for popular web frameworks has been updated to reflect the most recent release of each framework. The frameworks supported are: ActiveMQ DOJO DWR JSF SiteMesh Spring Spring JPA Struts Tapestry WebWork Wicket **New** Contact us if you’d like to suggest a framework to Read more…
Greg Wilkins will be speaking at the Ajax Experience in San Francisco 25-27 July on the subject of Ajax Comet Communications: The Bayeux protocol and standardization efforts from the Open Ajax Alliance. Communications for Comet (or Ajax Push) remain a problematic issue for deploying scalable Ajax applications. This talk looks Read more…
Release 6.1H.4-beta of Hightide is available for download at: http://www.webtide.com/downloads.jsp. Hightide is an open source, versioned and optimized distribution of Jetty providing a comprehensive toolset for the development of scalable, state-of-the-art web 2.0/JavaEE applications. New features in this release include: More performance optimizations. Updated Bayuex (cometd) implementation. Updated Jetty to Read more…
The Ajaxian has covered a study of push vs pull Ajax communication techniques. The original report was produced by Delft University. I welcome this report as a good start on objectively measuring the communication techniques needed for web 2.0 applications, but unfortunately the report contains a couple of minor misconceptions Read more…
The Java Community Process has proposed JSR-315 to consider the 3.0 servlet specification. In this blog entry, I look at the Async and Comet considerations listed in the JSR-315 and discuss how 3.0 servlets might address them. From JSR-315 – Async and Comet support: Non-blocking input – The ability to Read more…