So you’re in a session at AjaxWorld and it’s not rocking your world! Want to know where the real rockstars are talking? Want to know what sessions are going off? Then tune into Rocks Or Not and rate sessions in real time and see what others think of the other Read more…
I’ll be talking about the common gotchas people run across when preparing Ajax and Comet applications for deployment. We have techniques and services to make sure your application is responsive and doesn’t break the bank. Look forward to seeing you there! www.ajaxworld.com, or drop us a line if you need Read more…
At the Rich Web Experience conference this week, there were many talks about performance and tools like ySlow. Everybody acknowledges that downloading lots of javascript and css with multiple script or link tags is a key reason that Ajax sites are slow to start, due to the latency of multiple Read more…
If you’re interested in finding out more about Jetty and the ways in which it can help you conquer the significant challenges of Web2.0, Greg Wilkins – CTO of Webtide and founder developer of Jetty – will be a featured speaker at the Rich Web Experience, 6-8 September in San Read more…
The Eclipse Web Standard Tools project extends the Eclipse platform with many useful tools for building and testing web applications. Webtide has made available a plugin which allows developers to use Jetty within the WST environment. A Jetty instance can be controlled (ie stopped and started) using the standard Eclipse Read more…
Join Webtide and Terracotta on Wednesday 29th August at 1.00pm Pacific Daylight Time for a joint webcast on why and how to cluster Jetty with Terracotta. Signup at: https://terracottatech.webex.com/terracottatech/j.php?ED=94642882&UID=0
Release 6.1H.5-beta of Hightide is ready for download from: http://www.webtide.com/downloads.jsp This release upgrades: + jetty to version 6.1.5 + atomikos to version 3.1.7 This release fixes: + a cometd bug with duplicated subscription messages This release introduces: + rpm installables
Sybase has published some SPEC® jAppServer2004 results for their Jetty powered EAServer showing excellent performance results against websphere and weblogic. Sybases EAServer JEE application server uses Jetty as the webtier, with the latest releases using Jetty-6 to provide 2.5 servlet specification compliance as well as Jetty’s advance asynchronous features (Jetty Read more…
Matt Asay suggests that many companies get great value by supplementing the support they can get from public open source support lists by budgeting for professional support. See his discussion at Matt’s blog. Certainly in agreement here. Beyond that, though, at Webtide, we find that our clients value not just Read more…
This release is only available from Codehaus and the MortBay site. For more information, please see: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Downloading+and+Installing This release includes a few minor fixes and some good improvements and few new features, including: RPMs, OSGi manifests, graceful shutdown and a new gzip filter. The ant module jar, the RPMs and Read more…