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Webtide, the Java experts behind Jetty
   
 
Services

Webtide offers its worldwide clientele the following services:

Development

Webtide's highly-trained software engineers can assist your development efforts in three different ways -- consulting, mentoring, and outsourcing.

Looking to move to open source infrastructure?
- We can advise or make the switch for you.

Looking to decrease the load on your servers caused by constant polling from clients?
- Ask us about scalable push (Comet) development.

Looking to increase your availability?
- Ask us about clustering and fail-over options.

Looking to increase your user/customers' satisfaction and productivity?
- Ask us about rich client interfaces.


Support

Webtide offers support contracts to cover clients' requirements. These are Development, Production and OEM.


Training

Webtide believes that the right training program contributes to the success of any software deployment. Webtide's training is presented by its lead developers who have extensive experience of the technologies and their applications. Webtide offers a flexible training program that caters to varying levels of expertise and interest. One can opt to take one or more days of the training, go for the entire package, or request customized and/or extended programs. Open Source Jetty, Ajax, Web 2.0 training
   
     
   
News & Blogs

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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