The Webtide Experience

I had a great conversation recently with Benjamin Kuo at socalTECH.com. Webtide is an extremely distributed organization around the world, but indeed I am located in the heart of Southern California, Los Angeles. It was a good time to talk about current business trends, the business climate, and how things Read more…

Cometd Features and Extensions

The cometd project is nearing a 1.0 release and thus we are make a bit of a push to improve the project documentation. As part of this effort, we have realized that there are many cool features and extensions to cometd that have been under-publicized.  So this blog is an Read more…

Continuations to Continue

Jetty-6 Continuations introduced the concept of asynchronous servlets to provide scalability and quality of service to web 2.0 applications such as chat, collaborative editing, price publishing, as well as powering HTTP based frameworks like cometd, apache camel, openfire XMPP and flex BlazeDS. wt58jhp2an With the introduction of similar  asynchronous features Read more…

Google Wave – A new paradigm?

The announcement of Google Wave is a bold declaration of where Google sees the future of the web. Google, unsurprisingly enough, sees the future of the web as a server side paradigm, with dynamic updates being used to drive the thin client model to capture even more of tasks that Read more…

Webtide/Jetty gathering at JavaOne

For SnoracleZero (aka Java One) this year, we are planning a social get together of Jetty users and Webtide clients  8pm Tuesday (June 2). If you’d like to come along, email javaone@webtide.com and we’ll pick a venue depending on the estimated numbers.  See you there!  

Servlet 3.0 Proposed "Final" Draft

In my December 2008 blog, I strongly criticised the Servlet 3.0 JSR-315 process and the resulting Public Review Draft, describing it as a: “poor document and the product of a discordant expert group (EG) working within a flawed process” and of producing a “Frankenstein monster, cobbled together from eviscerated good Read more…

Jetty: eclipse update site

For the last couple of jetty @ eclipse releases I have been working with getting a bit more used to the eclipse way of doing things. One of those ‘eclipse way’ deals is the p2 update site and I am announcing here the availability of a certain subset of jetty Read more…

Zimbra Desktop

JJ Zhuang of Yahoo!’s Zimbra division has posted up the architecture of their offline user client. It makes innovative use, or should I say re-use of their server code to present a seamless experience for desktop users regardless of connection state. He says they did this, with Jetty underpinning, for Read more…