Webtide (https://webtide.com) is the company behind the open-source Jetty and CometD projects. Since 2006, Webtide has fully funded the Jetty and CometD projects through services and support, including migration assistance, production support, developer assistance, and CVE resolution. First, the change. Starting January 1, 2026, Webtide will no longer publish releases Read more…
For the last 18 months, Webtide engineers have been working on the most extensive overhaul of the Eclipse Jetty HTTP server and Servlet container since its inception in 1995. The headline for the release of Jetty 12.0.0 could be “Support for the Servlet 6.0 API from Jakarta EE 10“, but Read more…
Recently, I’ve been investigating some test failures that I only experienced on my own machine, which happens to run some flavor of Linux. Investigating those failures, I ran down a rabbit hole that involves Unix, Unicode, Java, filesystems, internationalization and normalization. Here is the story of what I found down Read more…
The Issue The Eclipse Jakarta EE project has not obtained the rights from Oracle to extend the Java EE APIs living in the javax.* package. As such, the Java community is faced with a choice between continuing to use the frozen javax.* APIs or transitioning to a new jakarta.* namespace Read more…
There has been a tremendous amount of information, and a fair amount of disinformation, coming out over the last several months with regards to Java versioning, the effects of modularization, and how projects like Jetty may or may not respond to them. In light of that, we wanted to more comprehensively Read more…
If you have been following Jetty’s adoption of Java 9, you might have read that builds using JDK 9 have started being produced. As the release of JDK 9 looms, developers are no doubt already doing everything they can to test their current implementations and platforms against the available early-access Read more…
Andres Almiray (aalmiray) interviewed me at the JCrete unconference. We spoke about the history of the Jetty project (which is 22 years old – like Java itself), how Jetty has been able to stay on the edge all these years, how contribution to Open Source Projects works these days, and Read more…
In our previous blog, we presented the case of a Webtide customer, Genesys, that needed to integrate CometD in NodeJS and how we developed a CometD client capable of running in the NodeJS environment. In this article we present the other side of the solution, that is, how we implemented the Read more…
In addition to our Lifecycle Support offerings, Webtide is also committed to helping develop new functionality to meet customer needs for the open source projects Webtide supports, CometD and Eclipse Jetty. Recently Genesys, a global leader in customer experience solutions and one of Webtide’s customers, reached out regarding their usage Read more…
Five years ago we migrated the Jetty project from The Codehaus to the Eclipse Foundation. In that time we have pushed out 101 releases of Jetty 7 and Jetty 8, double that if you count the artifacts that had to remain at the Codehaus for the interim. Four years ago Read more…