Jetty has long had a rich set of JMX mbeans that give very detailed status, configuration and control over the server and applications, which can now simply be accessed with the JMiniX web console: The usability of JMX has been somewhat let down due to a lack of quality JMX Read more
One of my pet peeves is misleading benchmarks, as discussed in my Lies, Damned Lies and Benchmarks blog. Recently there has been a bit of interest in Vert.x, some of it resulting from apparently good benchmark results against node.js. The author gave a disclaimer that the tests were non-rigorous and Read more
Jos Dirksen has written a nice blog about Jetty-SPDY, thanks Jos ! In the upcoming Jetty 7.6.3 and 8.1.3 (due in the next days), the Jetty-SPDY module has been enhanced with support for prioritized streams and for SPDY push (although the latter only available via the pure SPDY API), and Read more
There is a revolution quietly happening on the web and if you blink you might miss it. The revolution is in the speed and latency with which some browsers can load some web pages, and what used to take 100’s of ms is now often reduced to 10’s. The revolution Read more
SPDY is Google’s protocol that is intended to improve user experience on the web, by reducing the latency of web pages, sometimes up to a factor of 3. Yes, three times faster. How does SPDY accomplish that ? SPDY reduces roundtrips with the server, reduces the HTTP verboseness by compressing Read more
Jetty has always been in the front line on the implementation of the WebSocket Protocol. The CometD project leverages the Jetty WebSocket implementation to its maximum, to achieve great scalability and minimal latencies. Until now, however, support for WebSocket over SSL was lacking in Jetty. In Jetty 7.6.x a redesign Read more
Being able to run the jetty maven plugin on your webapp – but in a freshly forked jvm – is a feature that has been requested for a loooong time. With jetty-7.5.2 release, this feature has been implemented, and it even works on your unassembled webapp. How to Run mvn Read more
CometD 2.4.0.beta1 has been released. This is a major release that brings in a few new Java API (see this issue) – client-side channels can now be released to save memory, along with an API deprecation (see this issue) – client-side publish() should not specify the message id. On the Read more
With the release of Jetty 7.5.0 and the latest draft 13 of the WebSocket protocol, the API for the client has be re-factored a little since my last blog on WebSocket: Server, Client and Load Test. WebSocketClientFactory When creating many instances of the java WebSocketClient, there is much that can Read more
Many folks want to use some features beyond the bare servlet basics with GWT, such as JNDI lookups. It’s not hard to set up, but there are a couple of steps to it so here’s a detailed guide. Since GWT switched to using Jetty for its hosted mode (also known Read more