Category Archives: General

When I was given the opportunity to come work at Webtide several months ago, I knew right away this was definitely a chance of a lifetime. It is absolutely amazing to be able to work with Jetty founders Greg and … Continue reading →

Background The W3C has developed the Websocket API proposal for HTML5, that enables web pages to perform two-way communication with a remote host. There is also a proposed  IETF draft websocket protocol to transport the websocket messages.   I believe … Continue reading →

In his Homesteading in the Noosphere essay, Eric S. Raymond likened the creation of open source projects to homesteading on a frontier, via a process of  “mixing one’s labor with the unowned land, fencing it, and defending one’s title”,  in … Continue reading →

The release of Firefox 3.5 included several new features for developers. One of the most interesting new features is the support for cross-domain HTTP requests made with XMLHttpRequest objects (see here for details) or, by using Mozilla’s terminology, cross-origin requests. … Continue reading →

The Dojo project has pioneered the implementation of the Bayeux specification, but for example the jQuery project lacked a robust client-side Cometd implementation. This gap has been filled now, with a shared pure-JavaScript implementation and bindings for both Dojo and … Continue reading →

Jetty now has available an asynchronous implementation for BlazeDS which uses Jetty 7 portable continuations. BlazeDS is an open source serverside web messaging technology. It provides real-time data push to flex/flash clients using techniques, such as polling and streaming, to … Continue reading →

I had a great conversation recently with Benjamin Kuo at socalTECH.com. Webtide is an extremely distributed organization around the world, but indeed I am located in the heart of Southern California, Los Angeles. It was a good time to talk … Continue reading →

The cometd project is nearing a 1.0 release and thus we are make a bit of a push to improve the project documentation. As part of this effort, we have realized that there are many cool features and extensions to … Continue reading →

Jetty-6 Continuations introduced the concept of asynchronous servlets to provide scalability and quality of service to web 2.0 applications such as chat, collaborative editing, price publishing, as well as powering HTTP based frameworks like cometd, apache camel, openfire XMPP and … Continue reading →

This blog updates the roadmap for jetty-6, jetty-7 and jetty-8 with the latest plans resulting from the move to the Eclipse Foundation and the delay in the servlet-3.0 specification. Previously it was intended that jetty-7 was going to be servlet-3.0, … Continue reading →