Author Archives: janb

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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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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GWT and JNDI

Posted on August 30, 2011 by janb

Many folks want to use some features beyond the bare servlet basics with GWT, such as JNDI lookups. It’s not hard to set up, but there are a couple of steps to it so here’s a detailed guide. Since GWT switched to using Jetty for its hosted mode (also known as development mode) back at GWT 1.6, lots of people … Continue reading →

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Google Just Doesn’t Understand Community

Posted on January 6, 2010 by janb

We’ve said it before (Bad Robot!), but after the Android 2.0/Nexus One developments, it really bears repeating: Google either do not understand or do not care about community once their immediate corporate goals have been met. In the Bad Robot! blog, Greg commented on the disparity between Google’s talk of Android’s openness and their provision of early candidates of the … Continue reading →

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i-jetty Release 2.0

Posted on April 18, 2009 by janb

Release 2.0 of Jetty for Android (i-jetty) is now available in src and binary form from i-jetty downloads. This release is the first to also be available (for free) on the Android Marketplace. To download from the Marketplace, you’ll need to have an Android handset. You’ll find i-jetty under the Applications category in the Communication subcategory. If you’re using the … Continue reading →

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Release 1.1 of i-jetty for Google Android

Posted on October 24, 2008 by janb

To coincide with the first availability of the Android handsets, we’ve released version 1.1 of i-jetty. This release has a lot of improvements in it and some rather cool new features. One of the improvements we’ve made is to add the ability to configure Jetty settings. Currently, you can decide whether or not to use the NIO connectors (the default … Continue reading →

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Jetty and Cloud Computing

Posted on October 13, 2008 by janb

Cloud computing is understandably a hot topic. It refers to the ability to deploy your application on infrastructure that you do not necessarily own nor manage yourself and that can be easily scaled up to handle demand and provide resiliency to failure. The hardware infrastructure can be composed of clusters of many cheap machines or it may be high-end hardware … Continue reading →

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Jetty Runner

Posted on April 30, 2008 by janb

If you’re looking for a fast and easy way to run your webapp, without needing to install and administer a Jetty distro, then look no further, the Jetty Runner is here! The idea of the Jetty Runner is extremely simple – run a webapp from the command line using a single jar and as much default configuration as possible: java … Continue reading →

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Java EE 6 Web Profile

Posted on February 28, 2008 by janb

Roberto Chinnici has posted a blog entry discussing the idea of introducing “profiles” in the JavaEE 6 specification(aka JSR-316). Essentially, a profile is a subset of the enormous number of APIs/specs etc that a JavaEE platform supports. Over time, EE platforms have grown in complexity and size, leading to very large downloads and very large runtimes. Of course, if your … Continue reading →

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Jetty Does Android

Posted on February 20, 2008 by janb

I’ve recently been working on porting Jetty to Google’s mobile platform called Android. It’s early days still, but I’ve succeeded in running a minimal setup with a connector (I’ve tested both bio and nio connectors) and a simple Handler. If you’d like to take a look, then check out the code from the i-jetty project and build it (you’ll need … Continue reading →

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