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The draft specification of JSR-315 (Servlet 3.0) is now available and introduces a number of new features including asynchronous/Comet support, security improvements, and other ease of development features such additional annotations and web.xml fragments. With some of the new features generating considerable debate, the expert group are actively seeking community feedback.
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By Charles Humble
on May 20, 2008,
- Java
- Topics
- Web Frameworks,
- JCP Standards
As we transition from a page based view of web application development to an Ajax style data based new server programming needs emerge. Gregg Wilkins, lead developer on the Jetty web container, has been examining the need for an Asynchronous Servlet API in a series of blog posts. This review has resulted in Gregg concluding that continuations are the best solution at the present time.
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By Scott Delap
on Jul 26, 2006,
- Java
- Topics
- Web 2.0,
- Rich Internet Apps,
- Web Frameworks
Jetty founder Greg Wilkins has blogged about the need for the Servlet spec to evolve into an asynchronous model in order to, among other things, deal with the new challenges brought on by Ajax. Greg proposes standardizing a coordinator which could be called by the container in response to asynchronous event and would coordinate the call of the synchronous service method.
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By Floyd Marinescu
on May 20, 2006,