UnixDomain sockets support was added in Jetty 9.4.0, back in 2015, based on the JNR UnixSocket library. The support for UnixDomain sockets with JNR was experimental, and has remained so until now. In Jetty 10.0.7/11.0.7 we re-implemented support for UnixDomain sockets based on JEP 380, which shipped with Java 16. Read more
The Jetty Project just released the Jetty Load Generator, a Java 11+ library to load-test any HTTP server, that supports both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2. The project was born in 2016, with specific requirements. At the time, very few load-test tools had support for HTTP/2, but Jetty’s HttpClient did. Furthermore, few Read more
The CometD Project is happy to announce the availability of CometD 3.1.0. CometD 3.1.0 builds on top of the CometD 3.0.x series, bringing improvements and new features. You can find a migration guide at the official CometD documentation site. What’s new in CometD 3.1.0 CometD 3.1.0 now supports HTTP/2. HTTP/2 Read more
I was invited to speak at the JAX conference in Mainz about HTTP/2. Jetty has always been a front-runner when it’s about web protocols: first with WebSocket, then with SPDY and finally with HTTP/2. We believe that HTTP/2 is going to make the web much better, and we try to Read more
HTTP/2 is now the official RFC 7540, and it’s about time to deploy your website on HTTP/2, to get the numerous benefits that HTTP/2 brings. A very typical deployment is to have Apache (or Nginx) working as a reverse proxy to a Servlet Container such as Jetty or Tomcat. This Read more
Jetty 9.3.0 is almost ready and Release Candidate 1 is available for download and testing! So this is just a quick blog to introduce you to what is new and encourage you to try it out! HTTP2 The headline feature in Jetty-9.3 is HTTP/2 support. This protocol is now a Read more
With the approach of the release candidate for Jetty 9.3.0 in the next days, we have implemented support for HTTP/2 cleartext upgrade mechanism, on server side, resolving issue #465857. This means that you can configure a Jetty server to speak cleartext HTTP/1.1 and cleartext HTTP/2 on the same server port. Read more
A producer consumer pattern for Jetty HTTP/2 with mechanical sympathy Developing scalable servers in Java now requires careful consideration of mechanical sympathetic issues to achieve both high throughput and low latency. With the introduction of HTTP/2 multiplexed semantics to Jetty, we have taken the opportunity to introduce a new execution Read more
I have recently presented “HTTP/2 and Java: Current Status” at a few conferences (slides below). HTTP/2 and Java: Current Status from Simone Bordet The HTTP/2 protocol has two big benefits over HTTP/1.1: Multiplexing and HTTP/2 Push. The first feature, Multiplexing, gives an edge to modern web sites that perform ~100 Read more
As you may know already, Oracle has announced that OpenJDK 7, with its last 7u80 release, has reached end of life as of today. In March 2012, the Jetty project announced that it had implemented the SPDY protocol and, along with it, the first pure Java NPN implementation that was Read more