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
Zimbra, One of the Largest Collaboration Environments
This one’s purely in their words… “In summary, we chose Jetty not only because it supports Comet in a scalable manner, but also because the Continuation implementation of Comet is least disruptive to existing Servlet based technologies.” -JJ Zhuang See
Polar Rose
Making a name for online image search Polar Rose’s unique technology gives greater meaning and context to digital photos by allowing them to be indexed online just like text documents. The company developer user friendly, fun, useful, transparent applications that
Photacular
Photacular enables users to create fun, unique products from their photographs with safe, secure, 24/7 online access. Options include T-shirts, mugs, coasters, jewelry, holiday ornaments, canvas prints, and more. All are custom made. Challenges: The company sought to launch an
Hightide 6.1H.6 Release
Hightide 6.1H.6 is available for download from the Webtide website here: http://www.webtide.com/downloads.jsp The changes in this release include: jetty 6.1.6 atomikos version updated to 3.2.1 dwr updated to 2.0.2 debian packaging The Hightide wiki has more information, along with instructions