Roberto Chinnici has posted a blog entry discussing the idea of introducing “profiles” in the JavaEE 6 specification(aka JSR-316). Essentially, a profile is a subset of the enormous number of APIs/specs etc that a JavaEE platform supports. Over time, EE
Jetty Does Android – Update
I’ve modified the application is bundled into Jetty on adroid so that instead of a simple "Hello World" message, you can now use the phone’s browser to look at content stored on the phone itself. Here’s a few screen shots
Meet us at the Webtide booth at EclipseCon!
Jetty Does Android
I’ve recently been working on porting Jetty to Google’s mobile platform called Android. It’s early days still, but I’ve succeeded in running a minimal setup with a connector (I’ve tested both bio and nio connectors) and a simple Handler. If
Webtide Scaling Highlighted on InfoQ
Based on Greg’s earlier benchmarking on Amazon EC2 nodes. Good stuff! It is great to demonstrate that open approaches can yield the best performance. InfoQ Link
Jetty and Webtide at Zimbra / Yahoo
A great endorsement of the performance of Jetty for Ajax apps. (and of course, for the help Webtide can provide). Application Development Trends article link Zimbra’s blog entry on the subject. Zimbra serves millions of users, and we’re proud to
Maven Archetypes Updated
The maven webapp archetypes – all with configuration for the handy Jetty maven plugin built in – made available by Webtide have recently been updated to the following versions: Active MQ – 5.0.0 Dojo – 1.0.2 DWR – 2.0.2 JSF
Client-side session replication for clusters
Web server clusters are used for scalability (handling more requests), availability (always have a server available) and fault tolerance (handling the failure of a server). Of these, the fault tolerance is the hardest and most costly mechanism to implement as
20,000 reasons why Jetty scales
I have published a comet Daily article that describes how I have benchmarked Jetty’s Cometd implementationof dojox Bayeux protocol to 20,000 simultaneous clients. This blog looks at the same results from a more Jetty centric view point. The diagram above
Blocking Servlets, Asynchronous Transport
The web-2.0 Ajax Comet use-cases have been getting most the attention when it comes to asynchronous features of servlet containers. The Asynchronous features are needed so that a request may wait without a thread allocated while waiting for a comet