Webtide (https://webtide.com) is the company behind the open-source Jetty and CometD projects. Since 2006, Webtide has fully funded the Jetty and CometD projects through services and support, including migration assistance, production support, developer assistance, and CVE resolution. First, the change. Starting January 1, 2026, Webtide will no longer publish releases Read more
For the last 18 months, Webtide engineers have been working on the most extensive overhaul of the Eclipse Jetty HTTP server and Servlet container since its inception in 1995. The headline for the release of Jetty 12.0.0 could be “Support for the Servlet 6.0 API from Jakarta EE 10“, but Read more
One can only improve what can be reliably measured. To assert that Jetty’s performance is as good as it can be, doesn’t degrade over time and to facilitate future optimization work, we need to be able to reliably measure its performance. The primary goal The Jetty project wanted an automated Read more
With the recent release of JakartaEE9, the future for Java has never been brighter. In addition to headline projects moving forward into the new jakarta.* namespace, there has been a tremendous amount of work done throughout the community to stay at the forefront of the changing landscape. These efforts are 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
Jetty 9.3.0 is almost ready and Release Candidate 1 is available for download and testing! So this is just a quick blog to introduce you to what is new and encourage you to try it out! HTTP2 The headline feature in Jetty-9.3 is HTTP/2 support. This protocol is now a 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
As avid users of jetty are bound to have caught wind of, jetty7 is in the process of migrating to the Eclipse Foundation as a component of the Eclipse Runtime. We even already have our own happy little news group which we need to get into the habit of checking Read more