Jetty-SPDY blogged

Posted on April 3, 2012 by simon

Jos Dirksen has written a nice blog about Jetty-SPDY, thanks Jos ! In the upcoming Jetty 7.6.3 and 8.1.3 (due in the next days), the Jetty-SPDY module has been enhanced with support for prioritized streams and for SPDY push (although the latter only available via the pure SPDY API), and we have fixed a few bugs that we spotted and … Continue reading →

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Jetty-SPDY is joining the revolution!

Posted on March 19, 2012 by gregw

There is a revolution quietly happening on the web and if you blink you might miss it. The revolution is in the speed and latency with which some browsers can load some web pages, and what used to take 100′s of ms is now often reduced to 10′s.  The revolution is Google’s  SPDY protocol which I predict will soon replace … Continue reading →

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SPDY support in Jetty

Posted on March 15, 2012 by simon

SPDY is Google’s protocol that is intended to improve user experience on the web, by reducing the latency of web pages, sometimes up to a factor of 3. Yes, three times faster. How does SPDY accomplish that ? SPDY reduces roundtrips with the server, reduces the HTTP verboseness by compressing HTTP headers, improves the utilization of the TCP connection, multiplexes … Continue reading →

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i-jetty 3.1 Released

Posted on January 24, 2012 by janb

Release 3.1 of i-jetty for Android is now available from the Android Market and the i-jetty download page. This release updates the embedded Jetty to jetty-7.6.0.RC4, although the majority of the changes have been to the Console, which is a webapp that allows you to interact with your Android device from a remote browser. Higlights include: pagination of large data … Continue reading →

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WebSocket over SSL in Jetty

Posted on December 12, 2011 by simon

Jetty has always been in the front line on the implementation of the WebSocket Protocol. The CometD project leverages the Jetty WebSocket implementation to its maximum, to achieve great scalability and minimal latencies. Until now, however, support for WebSocket over SSL was lacking in Jetty. In Jetty 7.6.x a redesign of the connection layer allows for more pluggability of SSL … Continue reading →

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CometD, Dojo and XDomainRequest

Posted on November 7, 2011 by simon

The CometD project implements various Comet techniques to implement a web messaging bus. You can find an introduction to CometD here. Web applications often need to access resources residing on different servers, making the request to access those resources a cross origin request and therefore subject to the same origin policy. Fortunately, all modern browsers implement the Cross Origin Resource … Continue reading →

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mvn jetty:run-forked

Posted on October 18, 2011 by janb

Being able to run the jetty maven plugin on your webapp – but in a freshly forked jvm – is a feature that has been requested for a loooong time. With jetty-7.5.2 release, this feature has been implemented, and it even works on your unassembled webapp. How to Run mvn jetty:run-forked That will kick off a Jetty instance in a … Continue reading →

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CometD and Opera

Posted on October 5, 2011 by simon

The Opera browser is working well with the CometD JavaScript library. However, recently a problem was reported by the BlastChat guys: with Opera, long-polling requests were strangely disconnecting and immediately reconnecting. This problem was only happening if the long poll request was held by the CometD server for the whole duration of the long-polling timeout. Reducing the long-polling timeout from … Continue reading →

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CometD 2.4.0 WebSocket Benchmarks

Posted on September 21, 2011 by simon

Slightly more than one year has passed since the last CometD 2 benchmarks, and more than three years since the CometD 1 benchmark. During this year we have done a lot of work on CometD, both by adding features and by continuously improving performance and stability to make it faster and more scalable. With the upcoming CometD 2.4.0 release, one … Continue reading →

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CometD 2.4.0.beta1 Released

Posted on September 12, 2011 by simon

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 WebSocket front, the WebSocket transports have been overhauled and made … Continue reading →

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