SPDY – we push!

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Thomas Becker

SPDY, Google’s web protocol, is gaining momentum. Intending to improve the user’s web experience it aims at severely reducing page load times. We’ve blogged about the protocol and jetty’s straight forward SPDY support already: Jetty-SPDY is joining the revolution! and … Continue reading →

Posted in General, HTTP, Java, Jetty | 2 Comments

JMiniX JMX console in Jetty

Posted on June 7, 2012 by gregw

Jetty has long had a rich set of JMX mbeans that give very detailed status, configuration and control over the server and applications, which can now simply be accessed with the JMiniX web console: The usability of JMX has been … Continue reading →

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Truth in Benchmarking!

Posted on May 29, 2012 by gregw

One of my pet peeves is misleading benchmarks, as discussed in my Lies, Damned Lies and Benchmarks blog.  Recently there has been a bit of interest in Vert.x, some of it resulting from apparently good benchmark results against node.js. The … Continue reading →

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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 … 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in HTTP, Jetty, Servlets | 9 Comments

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 … 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in i-jetty | 5 Comments

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in cometd, Jetty, WebSockets | Tagged , , | 6 Comments

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 … 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Jetty, Maven | 7 Comments