UnixDomain Support in Jetty

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…

CometD 3.1.0 Released

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…

HTTP/2 at JAX

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…

Jetty HTTP/2 cleartext upgrade

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…

Eat What You Kill

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…

HTTP/2 Push Demo

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…