While at EclipseCon this year, Michael Coté had the chance to talk with Greg Wilkins and Adam Lieber of Webtide. Just the night before Greg and Adam had checked code into the Eclipse Foundation repositories to finish up adding Jetty as an Eclipse project. They start out discussing Jetty’s new Eclipse home. They also explain how Jetty has changed since its start as a small, embedded web server and different scenarios where Jetty can be, and is, used. For example, it's used as a component for application servers and surprisingly, in Android and Windows Mobile phones.
Next up, Coté asks why they choose to dock themselves in Eclipse. Along with this, Greg and Adam talk about the way Jetty is being run in Eclipse as components and how that relates to them being assembled in the existing CodeHaus repository. To close out, Coté asks how Jetty will fit into the general Eclipse Runtime projects and vision.
As a post-script, not too long after we recorded this video, the Webtide folks discovered that Google AppEngine is using Jetty to aid in Java support.
Total running time 09:22 minutes
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