Java’s Virtual Threads (aka Project Loom or JEP 444) have arrived as a full platform feature in Java 21, which has generated considerable interest and many projects (including Eclipse Jetty) are adding support. I have previously been somewhat skeptical about how significant any advantages Virtual Threads actually have over Platform Read more…
Several months ago, the Eclipse Foundation approached the Eclipse Jetty project with the offer of a security audit. The effort was being supported through a collaboration with the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), with the actual funding coming from the Alpha-Omega Project. Upon reflection, this collaboration could not have Read more…
Executive Summary Virtual Threads, introduced in Java 19, are supported in Jetty 12, as they have been in Jetty 10 and Jetty 11 since 10.0.12 and 11.0.12, respectively. When virtual threads are supported by the JVM and enabled in Jetty (see embedded usage and standalone usage), applications are invoked using Read more…
Introduction The Jetty Project provided to the Java community support for NPN first (the precursor of ALPN) in Java 7, and then support for ALPN in Java 8. The ALPN support was implemented by modifying sun.security.ssl classes, and this required that the modified classes were prepended to the bootclasspath, so Read more…
Jetty 9 introduced the Eat-What-You-Kill[n]The EatWhatYouKill strategy is named after a hunting proverb in the sense that one should only kill to eat. The use of this phrase is not an endorsement of hunting nor killing of wildlife for food or sport.[/n] execution strategy to apply mechanically sympathetic techniques to the Read more…
CometD 2.4.0.beta1 has been released. This is a major release that brings in a few new Java API (see this issue) – client-side channels can now be released to save memory, along with an API deprecation (see this issue) – client-side publish() should not specify the message id. On the Read more…
The websocket protocol specification is approaching final and the Jetty implementation and API have been tracking the draft and is ready when the spec and browsers are available. More over, Jetty release 7.5.0 now includes a capable websocket java client that can be used for non browser applications or Read more…