Jetty 9 – Updated WebSocket API

Creating WebSockets in Jetty is even easier with Jetty 9! While the networking gurus in Jetty have been working on the awesome improvements to the I/O layers in core Jetty 9, the WebSocket fanatics in the community have been working on making writing WebSockets even easier. The initial WebSocket implementation Read more…

Jetty 9 – Features

Jetty 9 milestone 0 has landed! We are very excited about getting this release of jetty out and into the hands of everyone. A lot of work as gone into reworking fundamentals and this is going to be the best version of jetty yet! Anyway, as promised a few weeks Read more…

WebSocket over SSL in Jetty

Jetty has always been in the front line on the implementation of the WebSocket Protocol. The CometD project leverages the Jetty WebSocket implementation to its maximum, to achieve great scalability and minimal latencies. Until now, however, support for WebSocket over SSL was lacking in Jetty. In Jetty 7.6.x a redesign Read more…

Prelim Cometd WebSocket Benchmarks

I have done some very rough preliminary benchmarks on the latest cometd-2.4.0-SNAPSHOT with the latest Jetty-7.5.0-SNAPSHOT and the results are rather impressive.  The features that these two releases have added are: Optimised Jetty NIO with latest JVMs and JITs considered. Latest websocket draft implemented and optimised. Websocket client implemented. Jackson Read more…

Is WebSocket Chat Simpler?

A year ago I wrote an article asking Is WebSocket Chat Simple?, where I highlighted the deficiencies of this much touted protocol for implementing simple comet applications like chat. After a year of intense debate there have been many changes and there are new drafts of both the WebSocket protocol Read more…