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…
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…
It’s finally here! Java 9 has officially been released and includes a whole host of changes and new functionality. Jetty, too, has been built with Java 9 over the past few releases as we ramp up support for the new JDK. It’s important to note that while Jetty is being built Read more…
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…
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…
Andres Almiray (aalmiray) interviewed me at the JCrete unconference. We spoke about the history of the Jetty project (which is 22 years old – like Java itself), how Jetty has been able to stay on the edge all these years, how contribution to Open Source Projects works these days, and Read more…
Starting with patch 9.4.3, Jetty will be fully compliant with RFC6265, which presents changes to cookies which may have significant impact for some users. Up until now Jetty has supported Version=1 cookies defined in RFC2109 (and continued in RFC2965) which allows for special/reserved characters (control, separator, et al) to be enclosed within double Read more…
This is going to be a blog of mixed metaphors as I try to explain how we avoid thread starvation when we use Jetty’s eat-what-you-kill[n]The EatWhatYouKill strategy is named after a hunting proverb in the sense that one should only kill to eat. The use of this phrase is not Read more…
HTTP/2 is now the official RFC 7540, and it’s about time to deploy your website on HTTP/2, to get the numerous benefits that HTTP/2 brings. A very typical deployment is to have Apache (or Nginx) working as a reverse proxy to a Servlet Container such as Jetty or Tomcat. This Read more…
Jetty 9.3 supports HTTP/2 as defined by RFC7540 and it is extremely simple to enable and get started using this new protocol that is available in most current browsers. Getting started with Jetty 9.3 Before we can run HTTP/2, we need to setup Jetty for HTTP/1.1 (strictly speaking this is Read more…