Java’s Virtual Threads (aka Project Loom or JEP 444) have arrived as a full platform feature in Java 21, which has generated considerable interest and many projects (including Eclipse Jetty) are adding support. I have previously been somewhat skeptical about how significant any advantages Virtual Threads actually have over Platform Read more…
Several months ago, the Eclipse Foundation approached the Eclipse Jetty project with the offer of a security audit. The effort was being supported through a collaboration with the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), with the actual funding coming from the Alpha-Omega Project. Upon reflection, this collaboration could not have Read more…
Now that Jetty 12.0.1 is released to Maven Central, we’ve started to get a few questions about where some artifacts are, or when we intend to release them (as folks cannot find them). Things have change with Jetty, starting with the 12.0.0 release. First, is that our historical versioning of Read more…
The Jetty project has a long history of participating in the standardization of EExx (previously JEE) specifications such as Servlet and Websocket. Jakarta renaming After the donation of TCK source code by Oracle to Eclipse Foundation, the EE group has decided to change the historical Java package names from javax.servlet Read more…
The Apache Log4j2 library has suffered a series of critical security issues (see this page at the Log4j2 project). Eclipse Jetty by default does not use and does not depend on Log4j2 and therefore Jetty is not vulnerable and thus there is no need for a Jetty release to address 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…
The Eclipse Jetty team is proud to announce the release of Jetty 10 and Jetty 11! Let’s first get into the details of Jetty 10, which includes a huge amount of enhancements and upgrades. A summary of the changes follows. Minimum Java Version The minimum required Java version for Jetty Read more…
The Issue The Eclipse Jakarta EE project has not obtained the rights from Oracle to extend the Java EE APIs living in the javax.* package. As such, the Java community is faced with a choice between continuing to use the frozen javax.* APIs or transitioning to a new jakarta.* namespace Read more…
If you are using DefaultServlet or ResourceHandler with indexing/listing, then you are vulnerable to a variant of XSS behaviors surrounding the use of injected HTML element attributes on the parent directory link. We recommend disabling indexing/listing or upgrading to a non-vulnerable version. To disable indexing/listing: If using the DefaultServlet (provided Read more…
Jetty 9 introduced the 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 an endorsement of hunting nor killing of wildlife for food or sport.[/n] execution strategy to apply mechanically sympathetic techniques to the Read more…