There is a jurisdictional issue brewing over the future of internet standards – I know because I’m stirring the pot. The dispute is between the WHATWG and the IETF regarding the specification process for the websocket protocol (which I have some concerns about, but none the less is supported by Read more…
We’ve said it before (Bad Robot!), but after the Android 2.0/Nexus One developments, it really bears repeating: Google either do not understand or do not care about community once their immediate corporate goals have been met. In the Bad Robot! blog, Greg commented on the disparity between Google’s talk of Read more…
The CometD project has finally released its 1.0 version ! I have already posted here about new features of the CometD project, but the 1.0 release is a further step forward in usability, stability and documentation. For those of you that did not hear about the CometD project, it is Read more…
Jetty-7.0.1 has been extended with a WebSocket server implementation based on the same scalable asynchronous IO infrastructure of Jetty and integrated into the Jetty Servlet container. WebSocket came out of work on HTML5 by the What Working Group to specify a mechanism to allow two way communications to a browsers. Read more…
When I was given the opportunity to come work at Webtide several months ago, I knew right away this was definitely a chance of a lifetime. It is absolutely amazing to be able to work with Jetty founders Greg and Jan, as well as with all the other members of Read more…
Background The W3C has developed the Websocket API proposal for HTML5, that enables web pages to perform two-way communication with a remote host. There is also a proposed IETF draft websocket protocol to transport the websocket messages. I believe that there are significant deficiencies in the proposed websocket protocol Read more…
In his Homesteading in the Noosphere essay, Eric S. Raymond likened the creation of open source projects to homesteading on a frontier, via a process of “mixing one’s labor with the unowned land, fencing it, and defending one’s title”, in contrast to the lawful transfer of title that occurs in Read more…
The release of Firefox 3.5 included several new features for developers. One of the most interesting new features is the support for cross-domain HTTP requests made with XMLHttpRequest objects (see here for details) or, by using Mozilla’s terminology, cross-origin requests. It is well known that browsers enforce restrictions on the Read more…
The Dojo project has pioneered the implementation of the Bayeux specification, but for example the jQuery project lacked a robust client-side Cometd implementation. This gap has been filled now, with a shared pure-JavaScript implementation and bindings for both Dojo and jQuery. This means that the bulk of the Cometd implementation Read more…
Jetty now has available an asynchronous implementation for BlazeDS which uses Jetty 7 portable continuations. BlazeDS is an open source serverside web messaging technology. It provides real-time data push to flex/flash clients using techniques, such as polling and streaming, to provide a richer and more responsive experience. The asynchronous implementation Read more…