Webtide, a global expert in implementing Ajax Technology, is gearing up for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCon) in Portland, Oregon from July 24 to 28, 2006. At OSCon, Webtide will present its latest product, Hightide. Hightide is a versioned distribution of Jetty, which provides a comprehensive toolset for the Read more
Now that the 2.5 servlet specification is final, we must start thinking about the next revision and what is needed. I believe that the most important change needed is that the Servlet API must be evolved to support an asynchronous model. I see 5 main use-cases for asynchronous servlets: Non-blocking Read more
EXIST Engineering, a global company founded by a Filipino, is providing open source technology training in Manila this month, INQ7.net learned. In an e-mailed advistory, the company founded by Winston Damarillo, former Intel Capital venture capitalist executive, is offering free training on Ajax, Comet and Jetty technologies on May 6, Read more
WINSTON Damarillo, a former venture capitalist working at Intel Capital, is set to open more companies in the Philippines that would be involved in open source software development. Damarillo is currently running a company called Exist engaged in open source software development. Currently its chairman since its inception in 2001, Read more
This may not be too revolutionary, but I’ve spent enough time googling and asking questions on the Maven lists to believe that there isn’t a lot of information out there about topic so I thought I’d document it in a blog. Apologies to the Maven guys if this isn’t the Read more
With most web applications today, the number of simultaneous users can greatly exceed the number of connections to the server. This is because connections can be closed during the frequent pauses in the conversation while the user reads the content or completes in a form. Thousands of users can be Read more
The 6.0.0alpha3 release of Jetty is now available and provides a 2.4 servlet server in 400k jar, with only 140k of dependencies (2.6M more if you want JSP!!!). But as well as being small, fast, clean and sexy, Jetty 6 supports a new feature called Continuations that will allow scalable Read more
This case study looks at Cinémathèque from PowerSource Software Pty Ltd. It is a digital interactive entertainment system that embeds Jetty as the backend server for the set top box browser. PowerSource Software is a boutique software developer based in Sydney, Australia. The company has particular expertise in several interesting Read more
This Jetty Case Study takes a look at an intriguing software infrastructure product called 1060 NetKernelTM. Announcing the recent release of version 2 of the product, 1060 Research describes NetKernel as “an advanced service oriented microkernel”. Complex applications are produced by creating simple services and then aggregating or pipelining them Read more
Because I consider some of the “features” of the latest 2.4 specification rather dubious or expensive, I was reluctant to implement them as core features of Jetty. Instead, Jetty 5.1 will use optional filters to provide JSR77 statistics, wrap under dispatch semantics, request events and request attribute events. Thus Jetty Read more