While Jetty has internally used asynchronous IO since 7.0, Servlet 3.1 has added asynchronous IO to the application API and Jetty-9.1 now supports asynchronous IO in an unbroken chain from application to socket. Asynchronous APIs can often look intuitively simple, but there are many important subtleties to asynchronous programming and Read more…
In Jetty 9, the HttpClient was completely rewritten, as we posted a while back. In Jetty 9.1, we took one step forward and we made Jetty’s HttpClient polyglot. This means that now applications can use the HTTP API and semantic (“I want to GET the resource at the http://host/myresource URI”) Read more…
So you are not Google! Your website is only taking a few 10’s or maybe 100’s of requests a second and your current server is handling it without a blip. So you think you don’t need a faster server and it’s only something you need to consider when you have Read more…
Jetty 9.1.0 has entered round 8 of the Techempower’s Web Framework Benchmarks. These benchmarks are a comparison of over 80 framework & server stacks in a variety of load tests. I’m the first one to complain about unrealistic benchmarks when Jetty does not do well, so before crowing about our Read more…
Introduction One of the big refactorings in Jetty 9 is the complete rewrite of the HTTP client. The reasons behind the rewrite are many: We wrote the codebase several years ago; while we have actively maintained, it was starting to show its age. The HTTP client guarded internal data structures from Read more…
The SPDY protocol will be the next web revolution. The HTTP-bis working group has been rechartered to use SPDY as the basis for HTTP 2.0, so network and server vendors are starting to update their offerings to include SPDY support. Jetty has a long story of staying cutting edge when Read more…
Jetty 9’s NIO code is a nearly complete rewrite with improved architecture, cleaner and clearer code base and best of all it’ll be even faster and more efficient than jetty 7/8’s NIO layer. Detecting concurrent code issues is usually not a trivial thing. In today’s blog I will describe how Read more…
Jetty 9 milestone 0 has landed! We are very excited about getting this release of jetty out and into the hands of everyone. A lot of work as gone into reworking fundamentals and this is going to be the best version of jetty yet! Anyway, as promised a few weeks Read more…
Development on Jetty-9 has been chugging along for quite some time now and it looks like we’ll start releasing milestones in around the end of September. This is exciting because we have a lot of cool improvements and features coming that I’ll leave to others to blog about in specific Read more…
SPDY, Google’s web protocol, is gaining momentum. Intending to improve the user’s web experience it aims at severely reducing page load times. We’ve blogged about the protocol and jetty’s straight forward SPDY support already: Jetty-SPDY is joining the revolution! and SPDY support in Jetty. No we’re taking this a step Read more…