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 … 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 … 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) – … Continue reading →

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Jetty WebSocket Client API updated

Posted on September 2, 2011 by gregw

With the release of Jetty 7.5.0 and the latest draft 13 of the WebSocket protocol, the API for the client has be re-factored a little since my last blog on WebSocket: Server, Client and Load Test. WebSocketClientFactory When creating many … 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 … Continue reading →

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Sifting Logs in Jetty with Logback

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Joakim Erdfelt

Ever wanted to create log files at the server level that are named based on some sort of arbitrary context?It is possible to do with Slf4j + Logback + Jetty Webapp Logging in the mix. Example projects for this can … Continue reading →

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NoSql Sessions with Jetty7 and Jetty8

Posted on August 23, 2011 by jesse

When Jetty 7.5.0 is released we will have officially started to dabble in the area of distributed session handling and storage. To start this out we have created a set of abstract classes around the general concept of NoSQL support, … Continue reading →

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Websocket Example: Server, Client and LoadTest

Posted on August 22, 2011 by gregw

The websocket protocol specification is approaching final and the Jetty implementation and API have been tracking the draft and is ready when the spec and browsers are available.   More over, Jetty release 7.5.0 now includes a capable websocket java … Continue reading →

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Prelim Cometd WebSocket Benchmarks

Posted on August 19, 2011 by gregw

I have done some very rough preliminary benchmarks on the latest cometd-2.4.0-SNAPSHOT with the latest Jetty-7.5.0-SNAPSHOT and the results are rather impressive.  The features that these two releases have added are: Optimised Jetty NIO with latest JVMs and JITs considered. … Continue reading →

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CometD JSON library pluggability

Posted on August 16, 2011 by simon

It all started when my colleague Joakim showed me the results of some JSON libraries benchmarks he was doing, which showed Jackson to be the clear winner among many libraries. So I decided that for the upcoming CometD 2.4.0 release … Continue reading →

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