Jetty, ALPN & Java 8u252

Introduction The Jetty Project provided to the Java community support for NPN first (the precursor of ALPN) in Java 7, and then support for ALPN in Java 8. The ALPN support was implemented by modifying sun.security.ssl classes, and this required that the modified classes were prepended to the bootclasspath, so Read more

By Simone Bordet, ago

Renaming Jetty from javax.* to jakarta.*

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

By gregw, ago

Running Jetty on the JPMS module-path

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

By Simone Bordet, ago

Java Updates, Jetty, and the Future

There has been a tremendous amount of information, and a fair amount of disinformation, coming out over the last several months with regards to Java versioning, the effects of modularization, and how projects like Jetty may or may not respond to them. In light of that, we wanted to more comprehensively Read more

By Chris Walker, ago

Jetty ReactiveStreams HTTP Client

ReactiveStreams has gained a lot of attention recently, especially because of its inclusion in JDK 9 in the Flow class. A number of libraries have been written on top of ReactiveStreams that provide a functional-style API that makes asynchronous processing of a data stream very easy. Notable examples of such Read more

By Simone Bordet, ago

Building Jetty with JDK 9

The Jetty Project has been trying to to build Jetty using JDK 9 for some time now. We still have a number of things to fix (a few test cases and integration with ASM for class scanning), but overall we have reached a point where we can build Jetty with JDK Read more

By Simone Bordet, ago