I have done some very rough preliminary benchmarks on the latest cometd-2.4.0-SNAPSHOT with the latest Jetty-7.5.0-SNAPSHOT and the results are rather impressive. The features that these two releases have added are: Optimised Jetty NIO with latest JVMs and JITs considered.
Jetty with Spring XML
Since the very beginning, Jetty has been IOC friendly and thus has been able to be configured with spring. But the injecting and assembling the jetty container is not the only need that Jetty has for configuration and there are
Jetty WTP Adaptor
Not too long ago we had a contribution from Angelo Zerr that gave jetty a native WTP adaptor. We are happy to announce its availability now! Shockingly, there is some documentation for this plugin, based on the original documentation provided
CometD 2 Annotated Services
A new feature that has been recently added to the upcoming CometD 2.1.0 release is the support for annotated services, both on server side and on client side. Services are the heart of a CometD application, because allow to write
Lies, Damned Lies and Benchmarks
Benchmarks like statistics can be incredibly misleading in ways that are only obvious with detailed analysis. Recently the apache HTTPCore project released some benchmark results whose headline results read as: Jetty HttpCore Linux BIO 35,342 56,185 Linux NIO 1,873 25,970
CometD 1.0 Released
The CometD project has finally released its 1.0 version ! I have already posted here about new features of the CometD project, but the 1.0 release is a further step forward in usability, stability and documentation. For those of you
Jetty @ Eclipse – 7.0.0.M0
I am pleased to announce the availability of the first milestone build of jetty7 @ eclipse! Download Jetty 7.0.0.M0! It has been a crazy few weeks getting all of this together but it finally happened and we crossed a big
Property substitution in web.xml and the Jetty Plugin
Many web applications are configured via web.xml. Primary examples of this are Comet web application, which are configured via a ServletContextAttributeListener: you may want different listener classes depending on the enviroment you’re working in. Another example is where Spring configuration
GWT 1.6 HostedMode now using Jetty
GWT 1.6 RC is out and a new feature shines: the new HostedMode is based on Jetty. From the release notes: “Although the legacy GWTShell still uses an embedded Tomcat server, the new HostedMode runs Jetty instead. There is also
Cometd + Wicket
First off, I think I like wicket, its a pretty neat framework and it has some pretty solid integration with ajax which is interesting. I have to say though that having spent a lot of time on the whole long