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Phil Windley of Tecnometria has recorded an interview with me on Cometd and Push Technology.  The podcast is available from ITConversations and provides an introduction to comet and cometd.    

With the imminent release of cometd-2.0.0, it’s time to publish some of our own lies, damned lies and benchmarks. It has be over 2 years since we published the 20,000 reasons that cometd scales and in that time we have completely reworked both the client side and server side of Read more…

Jan Bartel and I will be presenting a "Guide to Jetty" Webinar on Thu, Apr 8, 2010 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT.   We’ll present an overview of Jetty and then show some hands on examples of running Jetty, deploying webapps, coding against the embedded API, plus a cometd Read more…

Johannes Brodwall has posted another great description of his techniques dealing with Jetty in everyday development life. It was great to meet him in person finally in Oslo recently, and he definitely has thought through what he does and why, which for your reference, you can find at his blog. Read more…

The websocket protocol has been touted as a great leap forward for bidirectional web applications like chat, promising a new era of simple comet applications. Unfortunately there is no such thing as a silver bullet and this blog will walk through a simple chat room to see where websocket does Read more…

Jan Bartel (Intalio) and Daan Van Santeen (Progress FUSE) will be giving a series of live webinars on how Jetty, Cometd and ActiveMQ can be used to provide a reliable messaging platform to the browser. What Jetty is and how its CometD Bayeux implementation implements messaging to the browser What Read more…

There is a jurisdictional issue brewing over the future of internet standards – I know because I’m stirring the pot.  The dispute is between the WHATWG and the IETF regarding the specification process for the websocket protocol (which I have some concerns about, but none the less is supported by Read more…

We’ve said it before (Bad Robot!), but after the Android 2.0/Nexus One developments, it really bears repeating: Google either do not understand or do not care about community once their immediate corporate goals have been met. In the Bad Robot! blog, Greg commented on the disparity between Google’s talk of Read more…

Jetty-7.0.1 has been extended with a WebSocket server implementation based on the same scalable asynchronous IO infrastructure of Jetty and integrated into the Jetty Servlet container. WebSocket came out of work on HTML5 by the  What Working Group to specify a mechanism to allow two way communications to a browsers.  Read more…