In the CometD introduction post, I explained how the CometD project provides a solution for writing low-latency server-side event-driven web applications. Examples of this kind of applications are financial applications that provide stock quote price updates, or online games, or position tracking systems for fast moving objects (think a motorbike Read more…
A release candidate of Jetty 7.4 is now available as both Jetty@eclipse and Jetty-Hightide@codehaus distributions. This release contains a number of new features which I will briefly introduce now, and make the target of more detailed blogs, webinars and wiki pages over the next few weeks: Jetty Overlay Deployer Jetty Read more…
The CometD project provides tools to write server-side event-driven web applications. This kind of web application is becoming more popular, thanks to the fact that browsers have become truly powerful (JavaScript performance problems are now a relic of the past) and are widely deployed, so they are a very good Read more…
CometD 2.1.1 has been released. This is a minor bug fix release that updates the JavaScript toolkits to Dojo 1.6.0 and jQuery 1.5.1, and Jetty to 7.3.1 and 6.1.26. Enjoy !
A year ago I wrote an article asking Is WebSocket Chat Simple?, where I highlighted the deficiencies of this much touted protocol for implementing simple comet applications like chat. After a year of intense debate there have been many changes and there are new drafts of both the WebSocket protocol Read more…
CometD 1.1.4 has been released. This is a minor release that updates the JavaScript toolkits to Dojo 1.6.0 and jQuery 1.5.1, and Jetty to 7.3.1 and 6.1.26. Enjoy !
Cometd 2.1 now supports annotations to define cometd services and clients. Annotations greatly reduces the boiler plate code required to write a cometd service and also links well with new cometd 2.x features such as channel initializers and Authorizers, so that all the code for a service can be grouped Read more…
The webtide blogs are moving to http://webtide.intalio.com. All new postings from the jetty & cometd team will be made here and over time we will move the content from the old site as well.
Cometd 2.1 now supports annotations to define cometd services and clients. Annotations greatly reduces the boiler plate code required to write a cometd service and also links well with new cometd 2.x features such as channel initializers and Authorizers, so that all the code for a service can be Read more…
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 by Angelo…it was a model contribution, code _and_ docs. Jetty Read more…