Jetty 6.0.0 Stable Release

Jetty Release 6.0.0 is now available via http://jetty.mortbay.org Jetty 6.x now becomes the stable release of Jetty and the 5.1.x series will now be in security fix only mode after it’s next maintenance release. Jetty 6.x is a major refactoring of the Jetty code base, that combines the best from Read more…

Atomikos Goes Open Source

The guys at Atomikos, creators of the excellent JTA/XA transaction manager have decided to go open source. We first got to know Atomikos when we integrated it with Jetty5, and we’ve also done the integration with Jetty6. We’ll be working closely together again at Webtide to provide a tightly integrated Read more…

Jspc Precompilation Plugin for Maven

Jetty Jspc Maven Plugin I’ve added a new maven2 plugin that does jsp pre-compilation. Just like the Jetty Maven Plugin, the new plugin detects whether jsp2.0 or jsp2.1 is required at runtime and generates the correct classes accordingly. All you need to do is to configure the plugin in your Read more…

Greg Wilkins to speak at AjaxWorld

Greg Wilkins, the lead developer of Jetty and CEO of Webtide, will be speaking at this years AJAXWorld Conference. Greg’s presentation is about the challenges of scalably serving Ajax Comet from Java Servlets. The various asynchronous servlet extensions are evaluated and several case studies examined.

Webtide joins the Open Ajax Alliance

Webtide has joined the Open Ajax Alliance. The chief goal of the alliance is to accelerate customer success with Ajax by promoting a customer’s ability to mix and match solutions from Ajax technology providers and by helping to drive the future of the Ajax ecosystem. Among the organizations who have Read more…

Using Java Server Faces, JSTL and Jetty

Until now, Jetty has not provided Java Server Pages Standard Tag Library nor Java Server Faces support with the container. Webapps wishing to use either of these facilities have had to explicitly include the necessary jars in their webapps. With the rc1 version of Jetty 6, the JSTL1.0 and JSTL1.1 Read more…

Cometd with Jetty

Cometd is a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus that uses a push technology pattern known as Comet. The term ‘Comet’ was coined by Alex Russell in his post ‘Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser‘. Cometd consists of a protocol spec called Bayeux, javacript libraries (dojo toolkit), and an event Read more…

Async Servlets – take II

I have reconsidered the API for asynchronous servlets that I proposed in my recent blog – it is not good!. It makes some of the same mistakes as weblogic and tomcat have made with their asynchronous extensions. So let’s have a brief review of all the available and proposed solutions. Read more…

Introducing Webtide

Mort Bay has been a successful small open source services company for over 10 years. But the business of open source is changing and is there is more demand for support and services from larger organizations. Thus Mort Bay has partnered with Exist to form Webtide and joined a family Read more…