WebTide

The Ajax and Comet Server Webtide, the Java experts behind Jetty


	Company Background Webtide are the main developers of Jetty, the highly regarded open source Java web container and are experts in implementing scalable Web 2.0 solutions using Jetty and other Ajax technology. Webtide engineers are core developers or contributors to Dojo Cometd, Apache Geronimo, Glassfish, Maven, ActiveMQ, Cargo, Agila, ServiceMix, Jetspeed, WADI, and a host of other open source projects. Webtide offers its worldwide clientele training, development, and support. Management Team Adam Lieber Chief Executive Officer Adam Lieber is the CEO of Webtide. Adam was a co-founder of Gluecode Software, one of the early open source software companies and delivered solutions to numerous industries and served as Gluecode's representative on OASIS. After Gluecode's acquisition by IBM, Adam ran worldwide sales for open source middleware for IBM. Prior to Gluecode, Adam was at the IT-focused venture capital fund Mission Ventures. Adam received his A.B. in Economics concentration, with Computer Science from Princeton University. Greg Wilkins Chief Technical Officer Greg Wilkins is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and one of the founding CEO of Webtide. He was also a founder and CEO of Mort Bay Consulting. Greg has deep knowledge of all facets of software development. He has, 22 years experience as a software developer, team leader, architect, trainer, and technical mentor in industry sectors ranging from telecommunications, finance, realtime computing to internet applications. He is closely involved with the open source movement, being the creator of the Jetty web container, a co-founder of Apache Geronimo, and a committer or contributor to a number of other open source projects. Greg sits on the JCP Servlet Expert Group and is active in the Open Ajax Alliance. Greg received his B.S. Computer Science Degree with 1st Class Honors from Sydney University, Australia. Jan Bartel Chief Engineer Jan Bartel is the Chief Engineer and one of the co-founders of Webtide, and Mort Bay Consulting. She has extensive industry experience as a team leader and consultant, working with java, J2EE, and other key related technologies. She is a contributor and committer to a number of open source projects in addition to Jetty, of which she is one of the project leaders. During her 20 year career, she has delivered both client-side and server-side applications in industry sectors as diverse as online services, telecommunications, and banking and finance. Jan received her B.A and M.A (Pass) degrees in Computer Science from Sydney University, Australia.

News & Blogs

JavaOne
Hope to see you there. Webtide has a booth #1224-4!

Jetty Runner
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 -jar jetty-runner.jar my.war

Voila! Jetty will start on port 8080 and deploy the my.war webapp.

Patterns for Servlet 3.0 suspend usage.
This blog presents 5 patterns of suspend usage for servlet-3.0, which can help explain the generic cases, provide a template for specific implementations and/or be the basis of frameworks to help developers.

JSR-315 Needs YOU!
The expert group for JSR 315 (servlet-3.0) has come to a bit of an impasse regarding some new features for auto discovery of servlets and filters. Some members of the EG have some security/flexibility concerns regarding these features, but others do not think the concerns significant enough to warrant additional complexity in configuration options.
In order to resolve this impasse, the EG has decided to solicit more community feedback. So this is my biased blog soliciting that feedback.

Use-Cases for Async Servlets
Pre-release 0 of Jetty 7.0.0 is now available and includes a preview of the proposed Servlet 3.0 API for asynchronous servlets. This blog looks at 4 cool things you can do with asynchronous servlets and how they can be implemented using the proposed API.

Jetty 7.0.0pre0 released!
The trunk of jetty has undergone some substantial changes over the last couple of weeks. In addition to jetty 7 now requiring a minimum version of jdk 1.5 and the default inclusion of the early servlet 3.0 spec, there have been a number of structural changes a bit more near and dear to my heart. It leverages a bit more maven2!

Careers

WebTide has a team of smart and fun people, and offers a great opportunity to its team members. The company has the following open positions.

- Sales Engineer
- Software Deployment Engineer
- Software Engineers
- UI Engineers

If you are interested, please send your updated resume to hr@webtide.com.