Serving Scalable Ajax/Comet
The Ajax Experience
Boston · October 23 - 25, 2006
About this Presentation
Some of the coolest things you can do in a browser will totally break the assumptions made by web servers to achieve scalability and interoperability. This talk shows how you can remake those assumptions and be both cool and deployable, with special focus on Java servlets.
This talks examines the impact of Ajax and/or Comet on HTTP servers, network infrastructure and java servlet containers. The case is made for asynchronous extensions in the server and common communication infrastructure in the browser.
Solutions from Jetty Continuations, Weblogic and Tomcat are examined. Case studies and examples from activemq, DWR and Comet/bayuex are described as well as possible standardization efforts from the JCP and OpenAjax Alliance.
Lead Developer of the Jetty Open Source Servlet Server
Greg is the lead developer of the Jetty open source servlet server and a member of the experts group for the servlet specification from the Java Community Process. Greg has contributed to Geronimo, JBoss, activemq, DWR and other open source projects. Born in Sydney in 1964, Greg graduated from Sydney University with an honours degree in Computer Science in 1986. Since then he has worked as developer, designer, team leader and architect on varied problem domains including telecoms and WWW. Greg is the founder of Mort Bay Consulting and the CEO of Webtide.