Webtide (https://webtide.com) is the company behind the open-source Jetty and CometD projects. Since 2006, Webtide has fully funded the Jetty and CometD projects through services and support, including migration assistance, production support, developer assistance, and CVE resolution. First, the change. Starting January 1, 2026, Webtide will no longer publish releases Read more
Cross-Context Dispatch reintroduced to Jetty-12 With the release of Jetty 12.0.8, we’re excited to announce the (re)implementation of a somewhat maligned and deprecated feature: Cross-Context Dispatch. This feature, while having been part of the Servlet specification for many years, has seen varied levels of use and support. Its re-introduction in Read more
Now that Jetty 12.0.1 is released to Maven Central, we’ve started to get a few questions about where some artifacts are, or when we intend to release them (as folks cannot find them). Things have change with Jetty, starting with the 12.0.0 release. First, is that our historical versioning of Read more
This short 5-minute survey is being presented to the Eclipse Jetty user community to validate conjecture the Jetty developers have for how users will leverage JakartaEE servlets and the Jetty project. We have some features we are gauging interest in before supporting in Jetty 12 and your responses will help Read more
With the release of the Servlet API 5.0 as part of Eclipse Jakarta EE 9.0 the standardization process has completed its move from the now-defunct Java Community Process (JCP) to being fully open source at the Eclipse Foundation, including the new Eclipse EE Specification Process (JESP) and the transition of Read more
With the recent release of JakartaEE9, the future for Java has never been brighter. In addition to headline projects moving forward into the new jakarta.* namespace, there has been a tremendous amount of work done throughout the community to stay at the forefront of the changing landscape. These efforts are Read more
Following the releases of Eclipse Jetty 10.0.0 and 11.0.0, the CometD project has released versions 5.0.3, 6.0.0 and 7.0.0. CometD 5.0.x Series CometD 5.0.x, of which the latest is the newly released 5.0.3, require at least Java 8 and it is based on Jetty 9.4.x. This version will be maintained Read more
Following the releases of Eclipse Jetty 10.0.0 and 11.0.0, the Reactive HttpClient project — introduced back in 2017 — has released versions 1.1.5, 2.0.0 and 3.0.0. Reactive HttpClient 1.1.x Series Reactive HttpClient Versions 1.1.x, of which the latest is the newly released 1.1.5, requires at least Java 8 and it Read more
The Issue The Eclipse Jakarta EE project has not obtained the rights from Oracle to extend the Java EE APIs living in the javax.* package. As such, the Java community is faced with a choice between continuing to use the frozen javax.* APIs or transitioning to a new jakarta.* namespace Read more
Jetty and the Java Module System. Java 9 introduced the arguably biggest change in the Java platform since its inception, the Java Module System (a.k.a. Project Jigsaw, or Java Platform Module System – JPMS). The Java Module System primarily targets the modularization of the JDK itself, but can also be Read more