Now that Jetty 12.0.1 is released to Maven Central, we’ve started to get a few questions about where some artifacts are, or when we intend to release them (as folks cannot find them). Things have change with Jetty, starting with the 12.0.0 release. First, is that our historical versioning of 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…
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…
“Project Loom aims to drastically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high-throughput concurrent applications that make the best use of available hardware. … The problem is that the thread, the software unit of concurrency, cannot match the scale of the application domain’s natural units of concurrency — a Read more…
Following the releases of Eclipse Jetty 10.0.0 and 11.0.0, the CometD project has released versions 5.0.3, 6.0.0 and 7.0.0. CometD 5.0.x Series CometD 5.0.x, of which the latest is the newly released 5.0.3, require at least Java 8 and it is based on Jetty 9.4.x. This version will be maintained Read more…
Following the releases of Eclipse Jetty 10.0.0 and 11.0.0, the Reactive HttpClient project — introduced back in 2017 — has released versions 1.1.5, 2.0.0 and 3.0.0. Reactive HttpClient 1.1.x Series Reactive HttpClient Versions 1.1.x, of which the latest is the newly released 1.1.5, requires at least Java 8 and it 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…
At the Jetty Project we have been getting reports from the community as well as seeing random failures of load tests and benchmarks that were using TLS, and the failures were only happening with Java 11 (any version up to 11.0.2). Jetty users also saw TLS failures in their environments Read more…
Jetty and the Java Module System. Java 9 introduced the arguably biggest change in the Java platform since its inception, the Java Module System (a.k.a. Project Jigsaw, or Java Platform Module System – JPMS). The Java Module System primarily targets the modularization of the JDK itself, but can also be Read more…