With release 6.1.0pre2 we now provide Jetty-JBoss integration for the Jetty 6 series. This brings a number of important new features for JBoss users to enjoy such as servlet 2.5 support, and moreover, scalability for ajax via our Continuations mechanism and our cometd implementation. There’s the beginnings of documentation on Read more
The maven mvn archetype:create command is a powerful one. It can create you a whole new ready-to-run application, complete with templated sources, config files etc. It takes a lot of the pain out of starting a new application. Webtide has created a collection of maven webapp project archetypes which are Read more
Couch Wei’s blog talks about the need for a web-2.0 messaging layer. See also the follow on discussion on the The server side. It is a key point that Couch raises and I am working with Coach within the Open Ajax Alliance to explore the possibility of a more standard Read more
Jetty Continuations can be used to prevent resource starvation caused by JDBC Connection pools or similar slow and/or restricted resources. Jetty Continuations have mostly been discussed in the context of web 2.0, Ajax Push and Comet. However there are many other use cases and the ThrottlingFilter, written by Jetty committer Read more
Somebody recently brought it to my attention that there’s a rumour going around that you can’t run JIRA on Jetty. Sure enough, digging around on the Atlassian site showed up with this: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/v3.6.5/servers/jetty.html. Rising to the implicit challenge, I set out to make JIRA run under jetty 6.x. As it Read more
Running any user program on low port numbers on *nix systems is generally tricky, as low port numbers are protected and only accessible as the root user. In the past, jetty’s suggested solution has been to use iptables or ipchains to configure the operating system to forward traffic for port Read more
InfoQ writes about the Jetty 6 release: The Jetty team released version 6 a couple of weeks ago and has also just released version 6.0.1 of the open-source web container. The Jetty 6 code base is a complete rewrite adding such features as Continuations, NIO support, and 2.5 Servlet spec Read more
Revision 6.0.1 of Jetty is now available at http://jetty.mortbay.org and from maven repositories. This minor version update includes: fixed isUserInRole checking for JAASUserRealm fixed ClassCastException in JAASUserRealm.setRoleClassNames(String[]) Improved charset handling in URLs Factored ErrorPageErrorHandler out of WebAppContext Refactored ErrorHandler to avoid statics JETTY-112 ContextHandler checks if started JETTY-114 removed utf8 Read more
Greg Wilkins, the lead developer of Jetty and CEO of Webtide, will be speaking at this years The Ajax Experience in Boston. Greg’s presentation is about the challenges of scalably serving Ajax Comet from Java Servlets. The various asynchronous servlet extensions are evaluated and several case studies examined, including the Read more
Jetty Release 6.0.0 is now available via http://jetty.mortbay.org Jetty 6.x now becomes the stable release of Jetty and the 5.1.x series will now be in security fix only mode after it’s next maintenance release. Jetty 6.x is a major refactoring of the Jetty code base, that combines the best from Read more