Jetty in Palm's WebOS?

The Boy Genius Report has an interesting screenshot with Palm’s new WebOS for the Pre starting up, and showing Jetty… Here’s the image page We’re certainly in favor of Jetty in mobile situations. It is small enough to fit those footprints, and can still get good performance, as we’ve seen Read more…

Servlet 3.0 Public Review : Update

After my blog on the Servlet 3.0 Public Review, I have been working on an implementation of the Servlet-3.0 asynchronous servlets with some the fixes/extensions I suggested in my previous blog and from some continuing discussion within the EG.  Specifically: A new ASYNC DispatcherType for redispatched asynchronous requests  The isAsyncStarted() Read more…

Servlet 3.0 Public Review

JSR-315: JCP Failings JSR-315 has produced a Public Review (PR) of the servlet 3.0 specification, which unfortunately is a poor document and the product of a discordant expert group (EG) working within a flawed process.  I  know this article will be read as a criticism of my fellow EG members, Read more…

GWT Hosted Mode Moving to Jetty

Last week I noted that people found great performance with “rails 2.2 + jruby + jetty = win” This week, we’re happy to find that the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is shifting its hosted mode from Tomcat to Jetty from Q1 2009. Find their announcement here… GWT Project Link Great!

Cometd + Wicket

First off, I think I like wicket, its a pretty neat framework and it has some pretty solid integration with ajax which is interesting. I have to say though that having spent a lot of time on the whole long polling, ajax push, cometd type of communication approach the whole Read more…

"rails 2.2 + jruby + jetty = win"

You may not know, but Jetty is a really common underlying platform for deploying Rails apps. Jan Berkel (no relation to Webtide’s Jan Bartel) found Jetty ran his app more than twice as fast as did Mongrel, and embedded far easier than did Glassfish. Great! Here’s the entry

Scalable BlazeDS with async Jetty

Valery Silaev has pointed me to an article on flex.sys-con.com that demonstrates how the asynchronous features of Jetty have been used by Farata Systems to achieve some excellent scalability results with BlazeDS. BlazeDS is an open source server side that provides comet style streaming events to a flex/flash client side Read more…