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…
When I was given the opportunity to come work at Webtide several months ago, I knew right away this was definitely a chance of a lifetime. It is absolutely amazing to be able to work with Jetty founders Greg and Jan, as well as with all the other members of Read more…
Background The W3C has developed the Websocket API proposal for HTML5, that enables web pages to perform two-way communication with a remote host. There is also a proposed IETF draft websocket protocol to transport the websocket messages. I believe that there are significant deficiencies in the proposed websocket protocol Read more…
In his Homesteading in the Noosphere essay, Eric S. Raymond likened the creation of open source projects to homesteading on a frontier, via a process of “mixing one’s labor with the unowned land, fencing it, and defending one’s title”, in contrast to the lawful transfer of title that occurs in Read more…